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Researches have found that Chantix, the popular Pfizer drug that helps people quit smoking, may instead give people heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems.

Jiang Zemin: Is he dead or alive?

Casey apparently wrote more than four dozen letters to fellow cellmate Robyn Adams during 2008 and 2009 when both were living in Orlando County Jail in Florida.

Deaths from colon cancer continue to drop across the United States — in all but one state, health officials said Tuesday.

The Naked Mole Rat is arguably the hardiest mammal on earth. Now, scientists have sequenced its DNA in order to unlock its secrets.

US artist Cy Twombly died in Rome Italy at 83 years old. Twombly was known for his use of letters, graffiti and scribble in his paintings.

A new study suggests doctors are testing women for human papillomavirus, or HPV, more often than guidelines recommend.

The only Democratic U.S. president re-elected since FDR's New Deal, and the last one to register a budget surplus in the past 30 years, has no-holds-barred advice for President Barack Obama regarding the debt talks: 'Don't blink.'

Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.

I'm the only woman in the establishment, yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when from afar, a man bellows, Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those.

The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid said that Medicare will continue to pay for ?Avastin? when it is prescribed to treat metastatic breast cancer, regardless of what the FDA would decide.

Since the dawning of cellular phones researchers have pondered whether there existed a link between usage and brain cancer, but evidence for both sides always emerges.

Virtually since the dawning of cell phones various reports have emerged suggesting that the device increases the risk of brain cancer, only to be refuted by another study shortly thereafter.

New research has found that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care units (ICU) kill bacteria that can cause hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

New research has found copper to be an effective antimicrobial agent, killing nearly all pathogens in certain parts of hospitals, for instance.

Medicare continues paying for cancer drugs Avastin for breast cancer, and Provenge, for prostate cancer, regardless of what health regulators rule on the medicine's fate.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: InterDigital, Apollo Group, TiVo, Dendreon, and Logitech International. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Central European Media Enterprises, Applied Materials, JA Solar Holdings, Riverbed Technology, Vodafone Group, and Randgold Resources.

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez confirmed on Thursday he is a cancer patient. The controversial leader, who has been a thorn on the side of the United States for more than a decade, said from Havana, Cuba, that he had undergone a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Blackboard, Dendreon, Approach Resources, Smith & Wesson Holding, and FSI International. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: AMC Networks, Photronics, Xyratex, Globe Specialty Metals, and Investors Real Estate Trust.

Apple's stock is having a hard time in 2011. Here's what it will take to get Apple's stock price moving again.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Royal of Bank Scotland Group, Celestica, JA Solar Holdings, GT Solar International, Dendreon, Hess Corp, TJX Companies, Transocean, Allegheny Technologies and Centurylink.