Reuters - The medical imaging industry called for the Medicare government health plan to broaden its coverage of PET scans to additional cancer types, asking an advisory panel on Wednesday to recommend wider payments.

AFP - India's top medical facility will investigate the deaths of 49 babies in clinical trials that took place from the beginning of 2006 to the present, a hospital official said Wednesday.

AFP - Researchers in Britain have developed a more accurate technique for spotting the most aggressive forms of bowel cancer, according to a new study.