Breast cancer screening doesn’t prevent deaths - Mammographic screening has been used for years to supposedly detect the early stages of breast cancer. But a committee of US cancer experts - the Phys...

Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Cancer drug tamoxifen takes another knock - The reputation of the breast cancer drug tamoxifen has taken another serious knock following the publication of two European trials that show it is no...

Caesarean: It triples the death rate in newborns - Babies born by Caesarean section are three times more likely to die soon afterwards than those born naturally, a new study has discovered.

The mammogram myth - How all our massive screening efforts for breast cancer can cause the very disease they are intended to detect. ...

Cancer: Death rate drops 60 per cent if you have someone to talk to - Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression.

Breast cancer screening challenged - Annual mammograms do not reduce breast cancer deaths, say Canadian researchers. ...

Mammograms: - Could they have helped kylie? - In the week that pop star Kylie Minogue announced that she has breast cancer, a new study from her homeland Australia remains dubious that earlier mam...