Washington, November 27: An American research team has found that retinal detachment, a condition that puts an individual at risk for vision loss or blindness, can be treated with using one of three currently available surgical techniques.

Los Angeles  - Many of the biggest stars in music are donating their names and talent to a new format digital magazine aimed at helping fight the spread of AIDS in Africa, it was announced Wednesday.

The idea of RED(WIRE) is an offshoot of the activist organization RED founded by U2 frontman Bono last year and all proceeds will benefit HIV-infected people in Africa.

Subscriptions to the magazine will cost 5 dollars annually. For this users will receive a new issue every Wednesday, featuring an exclusive song from a major musician, a song from a new performer and a multimedia presentation about how the organization is helping Africans in need.

Washington - A report by the nation's leading cancer organizations released Tuesday showed the first decline in 10 years in the incidence of new cases of cancer for both men and women.

The report was compiled by the National Cancer Institute of the government-funded US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and released online.

The decline was driven largely by declines in some of the most common types of cancer, according to the report. The death rate from cancer has been in steady decline over the past years.

The annual report on the status of cancer has been issued since 1998.

Boppard, Germany  - A party of sick British pensioners were isolated Tuesday aboard a river cruise boat, the Lady Anne, after German authorities put them under quarantine on the Rhine River.

Washington, Nov 24 : Adolescents are at greatest risk of smoking if their parents began smoking at an early age and quickly reached high levels and persisted over time, according to a new study.

The findings are based on the long-running Indiana University Smoking Survey and builds on previous research that suggests smoking behaviour is influenced by both genetics and the environment.

"This particular study focuses more on the genetic influence in the specific case of a parent''s smoking behaviour impacting a teenage son or daughter''s smoking," said Jon Macy, project director of the IU Smoking Survey in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

London, Nov 23 : Feeling irritated, tired and having low sex drive? Well, if you''re a male, then chances are that you could be hitting the ''Manopause'', says health researchers.

Yes, you heard it right. Just like women, men too could have ''male menopause''.

According to an earlier American study, as many as one in five males over the age of 65 could be experiencing symptoms of this condition, which include low libido, irritability, tiredness, weight gain, sweating, aches and pains.

Medically, the male menopause is referred to as andropause - which implies the decline in the sex hormones (androgens) of men - namely testosterone.