Japan reversed direction on Friday and said it would accept an offer from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help investigate the cause of the nation's worst nuclear accident. The head of the

The death toll from several days of punishing rains and mudslides across Mexico rose to 139 on Wednesday as tens of thousands were flooded out of their homes. Forecasters said more rain could be

AIDS fell from the list of the leading 15 causes of death in the United States in 1998, a year that also saw a record high in life expectancy - nearly 77 years - and favourable trends in more than a

The owner of the uranium processing plant at the centre of Japan's worst radiation accident in history pledged Tuesday to pay compensation for the mishap, which exposed dozens of people to radiation

A virulent strain of flu has reached the West Coast from Alaskan cruise ships, threatening to start the U.S. flu season early. Officials are urging people to get shots against the disease, the

Women and men over 50 - and some younger people as well - should take advantage of the tests that can detect colon cancer while it is still curable, perhaps even before it has become

Death rates from lung cancer could be greatly reduced if smokers and former smokers were routinely given CT scans of their lungs, doctors reported Friday. The scans use a new technique that is far

A Florida jury's strong ruling against the tobacco industry in the first class-action lawsuit to reach a verdict may prove a watershed in the history of tobacco legislation. The cigarette makers

Not so long ago, a Y2K computer catastrophe seemed inevitable. Few believed that the world's businesses, governments and technicians could band together to test hundreds of millions of computers and

Nearly 1,400 cancer patients have signed up to be one of the 15 to 30 participants in the first human trial of endostatin, an experimental drug that has been shown to shrink tumors in mice. The