Most UK cancer patients must travel abroad to get high-tech proton therapy.

The family of a four-year-old boy with a brain tumour are pleased with offers of financial support.

The family of a four-year-old boy with a brain tumour want to take him to the US for treatment.

An appeal set up to help a woman receive cancer treatment abroad is extended to help others.

Researchers create exotic new versions of atomic nuclei including one previously thought not to exist.

New techniques for treating cancer involve particle beams which can be focussed more accurately than X-rays used in conventional radiotherapy.

Tickets to see Robert Plant perform to help a mother receive treatment for a tumour sell out in minutes.

Singer Robert Plant is to perform at a concert to help a mother receive treatment for a brain tumour in the US.

Brain scanning technology may help identify how Alzheimer's disease progresses and who is likely to get the disease, researchers suggest.

The clunky medical gadget that has saved millions of lives in the past 50 years.

India sets up a prototype plant to produce helium, a gas with wide applications from nuclear technology to medical sciences.

A sophisticated scanning technique has allowed researchers to watch in real time as anti-cancer drugs attack a patient's tumour.

US scientists discover that the Earth is lighter than previously thought.

Two new superheavy elements have been made by bombarding lead atoms with fast-moving krypton atoms at the rate of two trillion per second.

A week or two ago, we woke up to read a prominent dispatch from London which has been syndicated and published in many cities throughout the country. It was a rousing appeal from Prime Minister Blair to arise and go now - not to Innisfree - or any other romantic relic of the past, but to come and s...