The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced an online database on cancer incidence and mortality rates for Connecticut and each of the eight counties in Connecticut. The "Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Connecticut" resource produces tables with cancer rates for each of the state’s counties, and county maps colored according to the range [...]

With suicide the second-leading cause of death for Wyoming youths ages 15-19, the Wyoming Department of Health is beginning a new program with public and private partners to help address the role of schools in youth suicide prevention.

Senior politicians and health experts have lent their support to a public national service on mental health, which falls the eve of the 10th anniversary of the death of David ‘Rocky’ Bennett.
Considered to be the Stephen Laurence of the mental health world, this historic landmark has again shifted the focus on to the inequalities in [...]

Scientists have discovered the two key processes that allow cancer cells to change the way they move in order to spread through the body, reports leading scientific journal ‘Cell’ (1).
The progression of cancer cells from one part of the body to another ("metastasis") is one of the biggest problems in curing cancer, therefore this research [...]

A new discovery by London biologists may yield new ways of handling the problem of transplant rejection. In a research article published in the November 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org/ ), the scientists confirm the two-way transfer of a molecule (called "MHC") that instructs the immune system to tell "self" from [...]