Death a few steps closer
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A WEEK ago the Australian Government was talking about moving the Australian Embassy in Baghdad to a highly fortified zone. It followed a major review of security of Australian interests in hot spots prompted
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Sometimes it takes looking into the casket and viewing the body to get closure. Sometimes it takes seeing the cadaver to accept finality.
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Rising trend of early human death cases in recent years in China have sounded alert on how to find effective ways to prevent the widespread sub health problems, which has so
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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For residents of these 10 towns, life can be a death sentence.
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The target keeps getting smaller, so take a shot while you still can.
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PUBLIC-health campaigns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Researchers singled out the deaths of more than 300,000 cancer patients, because deaths from cancer are usually more predictable and less sudden than those from heart attacks, strokes or other ailments.
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TAILORED therapies to target a range of diseases, such as diabetes and breast cancer, may be a step closer after the final draft of the gene-rich part of the &quot;human book of life&quot; was published yesterday.
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For centuries, it has been one of humanity's most graphic, gruesome ways to end a life: sever the head, home to thoughts, dreams and that most personal of features &#151; the face. Decapitation by hand, with sword or knife, smacks of ugly yesterdays &#151; things the West prefers to think it has left behind.
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Taking a look back a few years can be unreal. Things change so often that it can be hard to fathom the paths of life that take place.
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It is important that potential donors know about possible complications before they make this life-saving sacrifice.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.
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The odds aren't as long as you might think.
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The nation's accidental death rate has been gradually creeping higher and is up 12 percent compared to the lowest rate on record, in 1992, according to a report released Thursday by the National Safety Council.