For Avalanna Routh, a six-year-old diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called AT/RT, meeting Justin Bieber for Valentine's Day 2012 meant making all her dreams come true. And on Feb. 13, the pop star decided to make that dream a reality, treating Routh to a Valentine's Day date in Manhattan that she would never forget.
If you're going to be on either end of a kiss this Valentine's Day, you might want to consider smooching bare-lipped. Most lipstick contains lead.
The medication used to treat childhood leukemia is experiencing a nationwide shortage. Hospitals across the country could run out of supplies within the next two weeks, leaving thousands of children at a greater risk of dying from the disease.
New York's police union wants to expand the list of ailments covered by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to include cancers.
A controversial radiation treatment for patients who've had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer, U.S. researchers have found. Postoperative radiotherapy, or PORT, is thought to cut the chances that a tumor will return.
Venezuela's opposition coalition confirmed on Sunday that Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles had won a primary before the South American nation's presidential election.
Japanese Emperor Akihito will undergo heart bypass surgery on Feb. 18, after a detailed examination found a heart problem had worsened, the Imperial Household Agency was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Japanese Emperor Akihito will undergo heart bypass surgery on February 18.
Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of the best-seller The Last Lecture and an award-winning Wall Street Journal columnist, was killed on Friday in a car crash in Michigan, the newspaper said.
Jeffrey Zaslow, the best-selling author and Wall Street Journal columnist died Feb. 10 in a car crash in northern Michigan. Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, was returning home to Detroit from a book reading in northern Michigan when he lost control of his car on a snow-covered road and collided with a semi-trailer truck, police.
A comprehensive background check on Steve Jobs was conducted by the FBI in 1991, intended to vet him for a position in the George H. W. Bush White House. What position did Jobs end up holding? What did his co-workers and neighbors think of him? What was the 1985 bomb threat that first caused Jobs and the FBI to cross paths? Here are all the details so far from the 1991 Steve Jobs FBI file.
Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue has alerted police about threating messages she has been receiving from a stalker on Twitter.
February is American Heart Month and consumers will be bombarded with advice to keep their ticker healthy -- whether it's from the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women or the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's The Heart Truth.
A Rabbi residing in New York, while reacting to an article written by a gay Jew on the religious gay reparative therapy, has claimed that homosexuality can be cured by means of chemical castration.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a veteran prosecutor with acute political instincts and a reputation for thick skin, gambled big in the settlement negotiations with banks over illegal foreclosures.
Yujraj Sigh has posted on his twitter page a bald photo of himself. This proves the player's will to get back his life 'and of course everyday I look forward to come back and wear my india jersey my india cap and represent my country again jai hind' as he tweeted earlier.
Ford Motor Co. on Thursday named former 2012 Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to its board of directors. The appointment gives Huntsman another job as he backs out of the public spotlight back into the private sector. And it gives Ford another established, high-profile board member with political ties.
Newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation files regarding Apple Chairman Steve Jobs noted the computer visionary’s use of drugs, abrasive personality but also his fitness for a prospective government appointment.
A recent study has revealed that 297 of the 12,000 police officers who first responded to the 9/11 attacks have been diagnosed with cancer, triple the rate before the tragedy according to the Huffington Post. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) released figures that show that the cancer rate among NYPD officers has increased from six per year before the attacks to 16 per year after the attacks.
Norton Zinder, a biologist whose research into the genetic material of viruses and bacteria led to a greater understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of life, has died at age 83.
Jatin Chaudhry, Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh's physiotherapist, has been in news ever since he announced that the celebrated batsman was suffering from cancer.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are in the process of developing a breakthrough breathalyzer technology that would enable early and quick detection of symptoms related to type 2 diabetes mellitus, cancer, obesity, metabolic syndrome and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
