Breast cancer and cervical cancer kill 625,000 women every year, according to a new study that shows the diseases are on the rise. To put the death toll in perspective, 625,000 deaths a year is equivalent to six jumbo jets crashing every single day.
Two bioethics professors are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who shows them medical records proving Michele Bachmann's claim that the HPV vaccine made a girl mentally retarded.
Researchers used 'optical' laser tweezers and a super-resolution microscope to see the inner workings of white blood cells at the highest resolution ever.
A teen girl in Western Texas was charged Thursday by state authorities for faking leukemia, a terminal cancer, and collecting nearly $17,000 in donations.
South African President Jacob Zuma will appoint a commission to investigate a multi-billion dollar arms deal, his office said on Thursday, in a new probe into corruption allegations against several companies and top officials including Zuma himself.
Breast cancer is rising at an alarming rate as reported by researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.
Breast cancer is on rise and the rate is alarming, said researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.
A West Texas teenager who said she was dying of leukemia and collected $17,000 in donations may now face felony charges for theft by deception.
The number of breast and cervical cancer fatalities have skyrocketed in developing nations in the last three decades, while they have fallen in wealthier countries, according to an analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
This week, UCLA scientists are presenting research findings that indicate two popular diabetes medications may increase patients' risk of cancer.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was forced to slide down the emergency chute out of United Airlines Flight 586 at Washington Dulles International Airport on Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Gardasil can cause mental retardation has absolutely no scientific validity, according to O. Marion Burton, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In a heated stand-off between Republican Presidential candidates during Monday's Republican presidential debate, Texas Governor, Rick Perry, was caught in the crossfire over his 2007 executive order that required Texas schoolgirls to receive vaccinations against the sexually transmitted HPV virus.
After attacking Gov. Rick Perry's move to mandate Gardasil, an HPV vaccine, for 6th grade girls in Texas, Rep. Michele Bachmann implied the vaccination could cause mental retardation.
A genetically engineered herpes virus, designed to kill cancer cells but leave normal tissue unharmed, has shown early promise in clinical tests, scientists said on Saturday.
For action star Michelle Yeoh, one of Asia's best known actresses, the chance to play Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi posed perhaps the biggest challenge in her nearly three-decade career, and that is exactly what she wanted.
You know what you do when you're in a race? Go for the top dog. Republican presidential candidates did exactly that in Monday night's CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. En masse, they gunned for front-runner Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
The Starz television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand lead actor Andy Whitefield, 39, passed away on Sunday at his home in Sydney after his 18-month fight with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
A recent study done by the Northwestern University researchers reveals men are “not from mars” when it comes to parenting. They are very much attached to their children. In fact, they are “biologically wired” to their children. However, this attachment lowers the level of testosterone.
After a man becomes a father his testosterone level drops as per a new study.
Companies that make the gene-sequencing devices used in scientific research face a tough few years as potential cuts to the U.S. federal budget squeeze funding to its main academic and research customers.
Fatherhood indeed makes you less of a man, it seems. Research finds the more you evolve as a better father, the more you lose your testosterone.
