More than 100 people have been exposed to short-wave radiation due to a malfunctioning light bulb. Those effected were exposed for an hour, 18 were sent to the hospital with severe sunburns and swollen eyes.

According to The Associated Press, the exposure occurred during a memorial in honor of September 11 held Friday at the Baker Elementary School in Columbia. Attendees, many of whom were military veterans, said they started to feel symptoms soon after the event began

A new study suggests that women may not be getting screening mammograms as frequently as previously thought, according to USA Today.

The new study used a database of actual visits to 40 of New Hampshire's 44 mammography facilities. The researchers concluded that only about two-thirds of New Hampshire women 40 and older get mammograms every one or two years. Yet 97% have health insurance and 61% went to college - two attributes linked to higher rates of preventive health care

The urinary incontinence that often follows prostate surgery can be improved with injections of collagen into the area of the urinary sphincter, according to a new study.

"Collagen is suitable in patients who do not wish a more invasive option," Dr. O. Lenaine Westney from the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center told Reuters Health

A new non-invasive early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease has been developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The discovery of this non-invasive dye could aid in monitoring the progression of the disease and in studying the effectiveness of new treatments to stop it.

MIT, partnered with Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh, have developed a contrast agent that would first bind to the protein deposits, or plaques, in the brain that cause Alzheimer's, and then fluoresce when exposed to radiation in the near-infrared range

Children given radiation to cure their cancers end up worse off than those who had only surgery. Chemotherapy did not seem to worsen their post cancer health.

The report, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, adds to research showing that, while childhood cancer is usually curable, its effects can linger for decades and even a lifetime