Scientists find possible human virus fighter in shark bodies.
Scottish researchers have created the brightest ever gamma ray in a breakthrough that could prove to be a powerful tool in cancer therapy.
Options for treating prostate cancer are expanding with the advent of novel, and more expensive, medicines, with key data expected soon for what could be one of the biggest new drugs.
On Monday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a declaration recognizing the economic and social burdens imposed by noncommunicable diseases, which are expected to cost the global economy $47 trillion by 2030.
Study has found that gene therapy can potentially reduce levels of HIV.
The United Nations will hold a high-level two-day summit beginning Monday to discuss its intentions of tackling the global epidemic, which could reach $47 trillion in the next two decades, if no medical solution is found.
More and more people around the world are diagnosed with infectious diseases such as heart and lung disease, cancer and diabetes each year, yet there may be cheaper solutions to prevent and treat millions of these cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
'Born in Raised' release is delayed until 2012
Chinese media also reported that villagers blamed the factory’s pollution for causing at least 31 cases of cancer in the nearby village of Hongxiao.
In an extraordinary breakthrough, online game players have pieced together the molecular structure of the mysterious retrovirus enzyme that has baffled scientists for more than a decade. This is the first case in which researchers and gamers have teamed up together to solve an age-old scientific problem.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on his way to Cuba for a fourth round of chemotherapy on Saturday, dismissed an international court ruling that cleared a key opposition candidate to run against him in 2012.
Many California schools are barring students from classes if they haven't received a whooping cough vaccine, in accordance with a state law passed last September. Thousands of students still have not gotten the vaccine.
Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann drew a rousing reception from Republicans at their California convention on Friday, raising hopes the Tea Party favorite might be able to put a faltering campaign back in gear.
Kara Kennedy Allen, the only daughter of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has died at age 51, a Kennedy family friend said on Saturday.
Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 51. Hers was one of two prominent deaths: Kara Kennedy, the daughter of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and the niece of former President John F. Kennedy, died of lung cancer, also at 51.
Perhaps conservative evangelist Pat Robertson need to ask a valuable question in regard to his view's on Alzheimer's and marriage.What would Jesus do?
Kara Kennedy, the daughter of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, died suddenly Friday evening at a Washington-area health club, NBC News reported. The cause was a heart attack, according to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, which announced the death.
Clad in Republican power red, GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann had a sit-down with Jay Leno, one of many comedians whose sport it is to takes jabs at the Minnesota congresswoman.
Michele Bachmann has made more factual gaffes than any of the other Republican presidential candidates, according to PolitiFact.com, a nonpartisan Web site that vets public officials' statements.
Pink ribbons dumb down the grim realities of treating cancer, and hide the profit-focused core of many high-profile fund-raising events, according to a movie that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this week.
Restless, the new film from Oscar-nominated Milk director Gus Van Sant tells a simple tale: boy meets girl, girl dies of cancer, boy mourns girl. But in Van Sant's hands, the film is anything but a sentimental four-hankie weeper.
A Colorado Springs couple is the first to file a lawsuit in against Jensen Farms on Thursday claiming that the cantaloupe that they ate tested positive for listeria.
