ORLANDO - CANCER specialists, gathered for an annual meeting, are reporting progress in the fight against lung cancer, the most common and deadliest form of cancer, but little progress in treating colorectal cancer.
TOKYO - NINTENDO Co Ltd plans to launch a new version of its 'Wii Fit' home exercise game this autumn, aiming to help boost sluggish sales of its Wii console in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.
Called 'Wii Fit plus', the new version will allow users to compete with friends and family over the Internet to lose weight and other activities, the newspaper said, without citing sources.
ORLANDO (Florida) - FOR the first time, a novel treatment that trains the immune system to fight cancer has shown modest benefit in late-stage testing against the deadly skin cancer melanoma.
The approach is called a cancer vaccine, even though it treats disease rather than prevents it.
CAPE TOWN (South Africa) - AUTHORITIES shot dozens of exhausted whales that beached on a shore near South Africa's storm-lashed southern tip on Saturday amid scenes of grief and despair from volunteers who had tried to save them.
Fifty-five false killer whales washed up on the shores of Kommitjie, near the Cape of Good Hope, in the early morning, prompting a massive all-day rescue effort. Hundreds of locals wearing wet suits or shorts braved high winds and rough waves to try to push the massive mammals from knee-deep water back into the open sea to no avail.
