State and Federal lawmakers constantly proposed measures to restrict women's reproductive rights in 2011.
Hugo Chavez says that the United States could be responsible his cancer and the cancer of other South American leaders. Castro warned him.
Has a Christian-Muslim war in Nigeria begun? Christian leaders are up in arms over Boko Haram while President Goodluck Jonathan frantically tries to cool boiling blood.
Strange as it may sound, the U.S. government has been accused of spreading cancer among South American leaders, by none other than the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
Less than two weeks after giving birth to son Chad Michael, and just short of her 18th birthday, Jenni Lake succumbed to stage three astrocytoma. Lake, who became pregnant halfway through her cancer treatments, stopped chemo and radiation to protect her son, refusing the abortion that would have saved her life. This is her legacy.
From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman's foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world's media.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, a $30 billion Chinese telecoms gear maker, has initiated a system this year to allow top executives to take turns acting as chief executive, its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said in a year-end message
The New York Appellate Division of State Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nilda Macri, who has been in court for the last four years, trying to collect line-of-duty death benefits after her husband, NYPD Officer and September 11th first responder Frank Macri, died from lung cancer that he developed after working at Ground Zero for two months.
Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and Jersey Shore star Snooki have something in common.
In a scene straight out of a movie, former New England Patriots defensive tackle Houston Antwine and wife Evelyn tragically died within 24 hours of each other after long bouts with heart failure and lung cancer, respectively.
Fernandez, 58, will undergo an operation on January 4.
Venezuela is offering women the free removal of breast implants made by a bankrupt French company that used industrial silicone to make cheap prostheses linked to health risks.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery next month, her government said Tuesday, adding that the cancerous cells had not spread.
Holland Taylor offers no apologies for never settling down, getting married or having children.
Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino both have films set for 2012 release
CNN has published court documents from Newt Gingrich's 1980 divorce that contradict his claim that his ex-wife, Jackie Battley, initiated the proceedings.
As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant maker at the heart of a scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of women worldwide. That was almost ten years before the company came under scrutiny from European regulators.
China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd, the nation's biggest dairy firm, said it had destroyed milk found to be contaminated with a cancer-causing substance, the latest food safety problem to hit the country's dairy industry.
The European Commission has approved the use of Avastin, a drug manufactured by the Swiss-based health care company, Roche. Avastin is used to treat women in advanced stages of ovarian cancer.
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Fears over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe on Thursday as French officials prepared to decide if thousands of women should have their implants surgically removed.
The French government is still deciding whether or not to order women to get rid of defective breast implants, made from industrial grade silicone. However, senior officials told Libération newspaper that all French women given prosthetics supplied by the company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) will be ordered this week to remove the implants.
