Men are more likely than women to be diagnosed and die of cancer, according to government research and analysis of 36 different types of tumors and blood cancers that affect both sexes.
A new study revealed that men have a higher chance of dying from certain types of cancer than women.
Michelle Obama, Maria Shriver and George W. Bush were among the dignitaries who paid tribute to Former First Lady Betty Ford at her funeral in Palm Desert today.The wife of the late President Gerald Ford and founder of the famed drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic bearing her name, died on Friday at age 93.Betty Ford was the First Lady of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Her willingness to speak candidly about her personal battles with cancer and addiction helped to...
More men die from cancer than women, according to a study published Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
A new study published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found men have a higher mortality rate for a vast majority of cancers than women do.
Former NFL star and current NFL commentator Michael Irvin says in Out magazine he will support any NFL player who comes out as homosexual 100 percent.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Radiant Systems, Clean Energy Fuels, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Micromet, and Nasdaq OMX Group. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Microchip Technology, Novellus Systems, China Gerui Advanced Materials Group, KLA-Tencor, and Intersil.
What's in a foreskin? According to many experts in the field of sexually transmitted diseases, a lot.
In the unprecedented San Francisco circumcision ban campaign, much attention is being paid to the cartoon that the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups are calling anti-Semitic. But what of the medical ramifications?
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Kandi Technologies, Micromet, SIRIUS XM Radio, Lam Research, and Camtek. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Aixtron, Geron, GT Solar International, Sina, and Vodafone Group.
In ruling against a petition filed nine years ago asking the DEA to reclassify marijuana for medical use, the federal government gave a weak response.
The report indicated that all U.S. state obesity rates were below 15% twenty years ago, suggesting that we are doing this to ourselves. Obesity rates have increased by greater than 90% in 10 states and have doubled in seven.
Betty and Gerald Ford were married for 58 years
Betty Ford the former first lady died on Friday at age 93. The director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential and Library Museum, Elaine Didier confirmed her death on Friday.
Well, the treatment for cancer is nearing, if the latest findings from University of Southampton have to be believed.
Betty Ford, the widow of President Gerald Ford, died Friday night at the age of 93, said the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. Ford founded an addiction center in California after she struggled for years with relentless addictions to painkillers and alcohol
A synthetic windpipe grown in a lab was transplanted into a live patient. The windpipe was grown from stem cells harvested from the patient's hips.
J&J was sued by a company called Oral Cancer Prevention International that claimed the drug major interfered with a sales agreement related to the distribution of an oral cancer prevention product to protect sales of its popular mouthwash, Listerine, according to court documents.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ended their Canadian tour today and are now expected to arrive in Los Angeles. There, the prince will play a polo match, he and Kate will hobnob with celebrities at a glitzy black-tie affair, and they'll both continue their charity work.
An annual report F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2011, from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the country, soaring up to 34.4 percent, while other states, such as, Colorado - who scored the lowest in obese residents in the report with a rate of 19.8 percent - remain steady.
Surgeons at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. The unidentified male patient was implanted with a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells.
A man who had a cancer-stricken windpipe can now anticipate a normal life expectancy after doctors replaced that windpipe with a lab-made organ freeing him of the cancer.
