CANCER

Although dowries are illegal and a criminal offense, the act is still widely practiced in South Asia.

The 26-year has the same rare cancer that Steve Jobs had

Women who survive breast cancer after undergoing chemotherapy may also have to contend with impairments in attention, memory and planning skills, U.S. researchers said Monday.

Many will remember Frazier as one of the greatest heavyweights in history.

The funeral for former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Frazier, who died of liver cancer on Nov. 7, took place Monday with many -- family, friends, celebs and those in the boxing community -- paying their condolences in what turned out to be a service that lasted over two hours.

Qantas is celebrating Movember by flying a mustache-clad Boeing 737.

A team of U.S. scientists believe they have found a piece of advice that breast cancer -stricken mothers can give their daughters to help them stave off the disease: stay clear of alcohol.

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, have introduced a new class of drug - histone deacytalase inhibitors - meant to combat Tamoxifen resistance in patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer tumors.

A paint capable of leaching acrylonitrile, a tumor-causing toxin, was used to paint the water tanks of up to 50 cruise liners owned by cruise companies including Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and others in 2004.

As the daughter-in-law of cosmetics heavyweight Estée Lauder, Evelyn Lauder chose to dedicate much of her life to breast cancer awareness.

Barbara Grier, writer, publisher and the co-founder of Naiad Press, once world's largest publishing house for gay and lesbian literature, died of cancer yesterday in Tallahassee, Fla. She was 78.

California-based distributors of medical marijuana have been ordered to shut down operations by Saturday. The move is part of a federal crackdown after weeks of conflict between prosecutors and distributors.

Japan's Olympus Corp risks collapsing under a massive accounting scandal, but the company's big and profitable medical business is likely to emerge from any wreckage unharmed.

Arab Spring and Royal Wedding were on Wednesday deemed the top phrases of 2011, while late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the year's top name, according to a global survey of the English language.

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been named Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who tapped the comedian's celebrity in the ongoing fight against AIDS.

Some Indian media reports have speculated that she has some form of cancer.

A government-backed expert panel joined in the fight against skin cancer on Tuesday with a proposal urging doctors to counsel fair-skinned youths about sun protection.

Sonia Gandhi, India's most powerful politician, has cancelled what would have been her first public address since undergoing surgery for an undisclosed illness.

Hip hop artist Heavy D‘s unexpected and tragic death at the age of 44 on Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles has shocked his family, friends and fans, and his last words on Twitter have taken on an eerie feel.

Mississippi voters rejected a ballot initiative Tuesday to declare that a human life begins at conception. The measure would have effectively banned abortions in the state and legally challenged abortion rights nationwide as it conflicts with the Supreme Court 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortions.

A recombinant poxviral vaccine, PANVAC, under study has shown to produce positive results in patients suffering from ovarian and breast cancer with limited tumour burden and minimal prior chemotherapy, a recent research reveals.