The use of radiotherapy is not a particularly new technique, being used as a cancer treatment from the turn of the 20th Century, just a few years after Nobel Prize-winning German physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays and their capability not just to see inside the human body, but also treat malignant cells. Radiation

A new genetic risk tool could be used to diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) in the early stages, increasing the chance for patients to start an effective course of treatment. Medical Life Sciences News reports that the tools can identify a condition called optic neuritis. About half of all people with the condition go on to