The transfer of patients into the $171.5 million first-phase of the newly renovated Montfort Hospital has been delayed for three days due to high-tech glitches.

According to Gerald Savoie, hospital president, patient transfers were moved from Friday to Monday to allow full implementation and testing of the first phase's electrical system.

Scientists are aiming to develop a vaccine which could suppress the effects of rheumatoid arthritis using patients' own blood cells.

A team from Newcastle University said the treatment involves cells being taken from the patient before being altered and injected back into the affected joint. The process changes human cells to suppress rather than activate the immune system.

In what may be an inspiration to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-affected families, Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been found to have certain physical features that contributed to his phenomenal win of 11 career gold medals.

He was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 for which he required daily doses of the drug Ritalin. But this did not stop him from pursuing his goals for swimming.

Certain commonly used skin creams like moisturizers induced skin cancer in experiments on mice, a study released Thursday said, and experts are checking to see if they might cause growths in people as well.

Allan Conney and colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey said they tested four common skin creams on gene-altered hairless mice exposed to heavy doses of cancer-causing UV light.

Young women who smoke are twice as likely to have a stroke as their non-smoking counterparts, according to a new study. And the number of cigarettes a woman smokes is directly proportional to the risk.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine interviewed 466 women who had had a stroke between the ages of 15 and 49, and were either smokers, non-smokers or former smokers. A comparison group consisted of 604 women of similar age, race, and ethnicity who had not had a stroke.