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.

British actor, Andy Whitfield, who played a main character on Starz network’s “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” died on Sunday after battling Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma cancer for more than a year.

Whitfield, 39, succumbs to non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Actor Andy Whitfield, the former star of TV show Spartacus: Blood and Sand, died on Sunday of lymphoma in Sydney, Australia, at age 39, his representatives said.

Welsh-born actor was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2010

Paul Simon performed his signature song The Sound of Silence at the memorial service held at the ground zero on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack when nearly 3,000 lives were lost.

A new U.S. study says women with hereditary cancers are developing them almost eight years earlier than their mothers and grandmothers.