A Japanese research team says it has developed a field test for Ebola that gives results in just over 11 minutes—down from the 90-minute test used now.

'The "candidate drugs" for malaria, osteoporosis and diabetes were currently undergoing clinical trials'.

Two Japanese professors will be awarded the 2015 Canada Gairdner International Awards, an esteemed medical research prize considered to be a good predictor of future Nobel Prize winners, the Gairdn

In an interesting development, the results from the first phase trial on Ebola vaccine suggest that the new vaccine is safe and provokes an immune response.

In a discovery that may pave the way for regeneration of damaged heart tissue, scientists have successfully stimulated the mouse heart to grow new cells.

A new research has found that the environment having no stronger force in determining obesity in children than their mother's diet, makes them prone to have poor diets and have related health probl

A molecule that can block the progress of Alzheimer's disease at a crucial stage in its development has been identified by British researchers.

Scientists have developed 10 new antibodies that starve tumours of oxygen and can help in the battle against cancer.

Medical science continues to make incredible head ways in treating and preventing cancer.