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Onyx Pharmaceuticals, QuinStreet, Molycorp, EZchip Semiconductor, Red Hat, Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Mechel OAO, Chimera Investment and Nokia Corp. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.

Air India's contingency plan was disrupted Tuesday after 30 of its 120 executive pilots, deployed by the national carrier to run its international flying operations in the wake of the pilots' strike, reported sick, reports said Wednesday.

New York City residents added 10 years to their life expectancy between 1987 and 2009, according to a new report.

For the third time in a mere two weeks, the motorcade of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been involved in a fatal accident. Who is to blame?

The Charlotte Bobcats made a strong move in hiring Mike Dunlap.

Hunter says Edwards is a doting dad to their daughter.

A Samsonite scare that a brand of luggage made by the company may contain unusually high levels of a cancer-causing agent led Samsonite to pull the luggage off of Hong Kong shelves.

John Edwards' legal troubles might be over but the former U.S. senator and ex-presidential candidate's tumultuous personal life is about to be put through the wringer again, courtesy of ex-mistress Rielle Hunter's tell-all book to be released next week.

Lance Armstrong has consistently proven that he didn't blood dope.

Americans love chicken and sauces, and Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (Nasdaq: BWLD) is happy to provide them -- the company sold a record 7.7 million chicken wings during this year's Super Bowl alone.

Yvette Wilson, known for her role in Moesha, died on Thursday after a battle with cancer. The actress was 48-years-old. View the slideshow to see photos of Yvette Wilson.

The number cancer survivors in America will increase to almost 18 million by 2022, a new report by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute said.

Charges of doping have long followed seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Now the cyclist is facing those charges again, this time from a quasi-governmental agency, the United States Anti-Doping Agency, and there are a number of reasons why the new claims are different than the others Armstrong has faced over the last decade.

Of more than 2,500 U.S. veterans with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, men who were obese at diagnosis had only about two-thirds the risk of dying during the study period that normal-weight men had, after considering other factors like age and overall health.

Federal prosecutors said they will not continue to pursue a case against former Sen. John Edwards after a jury was unable to produce a a verdict two weeks ago.

According to a panel of medical experts, the active chemical in used in spray-on tans -- dihydroxyacetone (DHA) -- can potentially damage one's DNA and cause genetic alterations. The experts reviewed 10 of the most current, agreeing that while more studies need to be done, what they already know is enough to warrant a warning.

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win Nobel Prize in economics, died on Tuesday, June 12, after battling cancer. She was 78 years old. The distinguished Indiana University professor received the 2009 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for her groundbreaking research on the ways that people organize themselves to manage resources. She was the first and, to date, only woman to win the prize in this category.

Founder of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, is responding to controversy with charity. After being threatened with a lawsuit and damage charges when he accused another website of stealing his content, Inman went ahead and started a campaign to raise money for the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society instead.

Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts is a breast cancer survivor, and she told Monday's audience she has another medical battle to fight: a rare blood disorder known as myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS.

United Healthcare pledged to uphold some of the most popular sections of the law, including a provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents' plan until age 26, regardless of whether the Supreme Court overturns it

Combatants on the front lines in the war on cancer have a new weapon in the arsenal, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday OK'd Perjeta -- flanked by Herceptin and docetaxel -- for deployment in a three-pronged attack on the enemy cells in people with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.