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The Senate narrowly backed a key plank of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform Thursday by rejecting a sweeping Republican measure that would have allowed employers to opt out of birth control coverage and other medical services on moral grounds.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is said to be recovering successfully after a Monday operation.

Almost 1.3 million people will die of cancer in the European Union this year, but death rates from the disease are on a steady decline, according to new research released on Wednesday.

Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital have isolated egg producing stem cells from human ovarian tissues. The new study is seen as a precursor to solving fertility issues in women of reproductive ages. If made viable, the study could benefit young women undergoing cancer therapy and older women who have to resort to egg donors.

U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, saying they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.

Taking sleeping pills could put you at an increased risk of premature death or cancer, according to a new study.

New research from the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in San Diego points to very strong links between sleeping pills and early death.

A small study suggests women plagued by menstrual cramps may find relief with vitamin D3, raising hopes that the dietary supplement could one day be an alternative to the painkillers and birth control pills that doctors now recommend.

Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi has travelled abroad for routine medical checks six months after undergoing surgery in the United States, a spokesman for the party said on Tuesday.

The International House of Pancakes (IHOP) is giving away free pancakes on Tuesday, February 28, in honor of National Pancake Day. Auntie Anne's Free Pretzel Day and Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day also coming soon.

Boys should receive the HPV vaccine as well as girls, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended on Monday

Weapons-grade uranium. There’s an ominous ring to those words.

Two newly discovered blood proteins may aid in cancer research, and the discovery of proteins ABCB6 and ABCG2 were the first new types found in a decade. Many people may know of common blood types A, B and O, but there are many other ways blood is categorized, particularly when it comes to its compatibility with other types.

Roche, the Swiss drugmaker, has announced that it has extended its tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina, Inc., for $44.50 in cash per common share until March 23.

There was endless speculation about what he really meant to the Beatles and to the world at large.

Exposure to BPA could increase your risk of heart disease, according to a new study.

The Dutch royal may never regain consciousness from a coma, Austrian doctors said Friday, caused after a massive avalanche buried Friso, choked off oxygen for 15 minutes and left him severely brain damaged, The Associated Press reported.

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, will fly to Cuba this Friday in preparation for the surgery he will undergo next week. Chavez has a recurring growth in his pelvic region. He was operated on in the same area last year in June when he was diagnosed with cancer.

If Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had been alive today, then it would have been his 57th birthday.

A new treatment given to 132 skin cancer patients in the U.S. and Australia almost doubled their survival, according to New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers used the drug Vemurafenib (Zelboraf) on patients and found that they lived for average 16 months as compared to those who underwent conventional treatment and survived for only nine months on average.

Venezuela's ailing socialist leader, Hugo Chavez, will fly to Cuba on Friday for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.