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 |  | | | | |  | | | | November 25, 2008 05:08 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer rates have dropped for the first time in the United States and previous declines in cancer deaths are accelerating, a report released on Tuesday showed as cancer-fighting efforts produced solid results.
| | | November 25, 2008 04:22 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - The main reason depressed heart disease patients are at higher risk for further heart trouble is because they exercise less and adopt other unhealthy habits, researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | November 25, 2008 04:17 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women are less likely than men in the United States to get a life-saving liver transplant, perhaps because of physical differences between the two sexes, according to a study published on Tuesday.
| | | November 25, 2008 04:14 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Heart pumps can buy time for people with failing hearts in need of a transplant but implanting heart-assist devices in the elderly as a substitute for a heart transplant benefits only some -- and at a high financial cost, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
| | | November 25, 2008 05:49 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers who tracked breast cancer rates in Norwegian women proposed the controversial notion on Monday that some tumors found with mammograms might otherwise naturally disappear on their own if left undetected.
| | | November 25, 2008 09:30 AM ET
 | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Doctors may soon be able to diagnose inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis, thalassaemia and sickle cell anemia in fetuses by simply testing a blood sample taken from the mother.
| | | November 25, 2008 04:04 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who need to take time off from work for a mental health problem may live shorter lives than those in better psychiatric health, a new study suggests.
| | | November 25, 2008 05:57 AM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blood pressure readings done in the doctor's office may have little value at predicting which patients who continue to have high blood pressure despite treatment will have a stroke, heart attack or heart failure, Brazilian researchers said on Monday.
| | | November 25, 2008 12:58 PM ET
| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older African Americans more likely to rate their health as poor compared with older white Americans, even though when the two groups "are functioning extremely well, new research suggests.
| | | November 25, 2008 10:55 AM ET
| LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria will launch a new campaign to vaccinate millions of children against polio Wednesday in an attempt to curb the spread of the disease that has crippled hundreds this year, the World Health Organization said.
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Rate of new U.S. cancer cases drops for first time
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