A Congressional brain injury committee said on Friday that the Pentagon must screen U.S. troops for brain injuries both before and after they serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. The committee also said the Department of Defense should do more research into brain-injury and improve its care of troops with such wounds.

The committee said it has found that brain injury wounds often go undetected until individuals later have memory or behavior problems caused by the brain injury

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the field of diabetes research by identifying three new genes which will help understand the causes of diabetes.

Scientists from Oxford, Dundee University and Exeter, followed patient data gathered in Tayside and Fife and tested the DNA of more than 32,000 people in five countries to track spots that harbor genetic risk factors for diabetes. The three new genes that have recently been discovered to develop Type 2 diabetes brings the total number of genes involved to nine

The donor of a single cornea can end up benefiting three recipients who have eye diseases, according to the latest report in the Archives of Ophthalmology journal.

The tissue of the cornea from one donor was divided into three parts to repair and replace diseased areas of three patients (two adults and one child)

A recent stem cell study conducted in Brazil hopes to offer a breakthrough for finding a cure of Type 1, or juvenile diabetes. The stem cells taken from the blood of diabetic patients were taken to enable them to eliminate the need for insulin medication.

Researchers say the injections of stem cells harvested from a patient's own blood may keep away type 1 diabetes, which afflicts millions of people who have to have daily shots of insulin. It is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks the pancreas, the organ that makes insulin-producing cells to regulate the amount of sugar in the blood

New research suggests that all pregnant women with clinical depression should receive adequate treatment immediately as it is the leading cause of premature births.

The stress hormones or corticotropin releasing-hormone (CRH), play an important role in the development of the unborn baby. If a woman gets depressed during pregnancy, the CRH hormone shoots up which leads to triggering labor