LONDON: The Western world's first drug to fix faulty genes promises to transform the lives of patients with an ultra-rare disease that clogs their blood with...
LONDON: Diabetes is running at record levels worldwide and half the people estimated to have the disease are, as yet, undiagnosed, according to a report...
LONDON: A GlaxoSmithKline experimental malaria vaccine touted as a new weapon in the fight to eradicate the deadly disease proved only 30 percent effective...
LONDON/BIRMINGHAM: A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban has every chance of making a "good recovery", British doctors said on...
LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline, criticised in the past for keeping important information about its medicines to itself, is to lift the lid on more of its drug...
LONDON: Gibbons are jungle divas. The small apes use the same technique to project their songs through the forests of southeast Asia as top sopranos singing...
LONDON: Culls of hundreds of thousands of chickens, turkeys and ducks to stem bird flu outbreaks rarely make international headlines these days, but they are...
LONDON: The development of a novel antidepressant ground to a halt this week when researchers found it did not make patients feel any better than the pills...
LONDON: New research suggests neutrinos that appeared to break one of Einstein's fundamental theories by travelling faster than the speed of light...
LONDON: Dutch scientists have found a way of turning plant matter into the building blocks of common plastics using a nanotechnology process that offers an...
LONDON: AstraZeneca is cutting a further 7,300 jobs and expects earnings to fall this year as patents on key drugs expire and governments in Europe and the...
DAVOS, Switzerland: The rich and powerful of the world were divided at their annual huddle on Wednesday over Barack Obama's threat to raise their taxes,...
LONDON: A backlash against rising inequality – evident from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring – risks derailing the advance of globalization...
LONDON: Loss of memory and other brain function can start as early as age 45, posing a big challenge to scientists looking for new ways to stave off dementia,...
LONDON: Scientists have found a direct link between the number of “friends” a person has on Facebook and the size of certain brain regions,...
LONDON: Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard. The new planet is far...