<div><p>British medical journal The Lancet says it has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.</p><p>The Lancet published the controversial paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in 1998. British parents abandoned the vaccine in droves, leading to a resurgence ...

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 80 percent of the 300,000 conflict-related deaths in Darfur were due to diseases like diarrhea, not violence, Belgian scientists said on Friday.</p><p>An analysis of deaths dating from 2003, when rebels took up arms against the government of Sudan, showed that after an initial ...

<div><p>The leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday accused major aid organisations of corporate preening and self-interest that had contributed to bedlam in the effort to help Haiti.</p><p>"International organisations, national governments and non-governmental organisations are rightly mobilising, but also jostling for position, each claiming that they are ...

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here's some advice stemming from the unusual case of a man who had spider hairs stuck in his cornea: Be sure to cover your eyes when hanging around with your pet tarantula.</p><p>Ophthalmologists at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, England, used high magnification ...