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.

Washington, Nov 23 : Neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have made a major breakthrough in brain research by uncovering a mechanism vital to the development of the hippocampus—the most important region of the brain.

Hippocampus is crucial to the formation of memories, and the lifelong production and integration of new nerve cells.

QBI''s Associate Professor Linda Richards said that there wasn’t much known about the early development of hippocampus.

In the study, the researchers were trying to find out how the brain forms during embryonic and foetal development.

Washington, Nov 17: Long term vitamin E or vitamin C supplementation has no significant effect in protecting against cancer, according to a new study.

The Physicians'' Health Study II is a large-scale, long-term, randomised clinical trial, which was conducted by 14,641 physicians who were at least 50 years old at enrollment.

All the physicians participating in the study were given 400 IU of vitamin E every other day or its placebo, or 500 mg of vitamin C daily or its placebo.

The subjects were followed for up to 10 years for the development of cancer with high rates of completion of annual questionnaires, and the confirmation of reported cancer endpoints.