Five patients being treated for eye disease were blinded after being injected with Roche Holding AG's Avastin at the Los Angeles Veterans Affairs medical center, according to the New York Times.
Rescuers and firefighters, who were exposed to the dust of the collapsed World Trade Center on 9/11, are vulnerable to cancer and other respiratory illnesses, says a report.
A new study has found out that there is a link between 9/11 firefighters and increased risk of cancer.
The link between cancer and 9/11 first-responders has been confirmed in a new study. According to British medical journal The Lancet, firefighters who worked in the rubble of the World Trade towers are 19 percent more likely to develop cancer than those who didn't.
Venus Williams was forced to withdraw from the U.S. Open on Wednesday after being diagnosed with Sj?gren's syndrome, leaving fans wondering: what is that, and is it serious? Here are five things you should know about the condition.
Silicone-gel breast implants are safe and effective, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Researchers have shown for the first time that a single intravenous infusion of a genetically engineered virus can home in on cancer, killing tumor cells in patients without harming healthy tissue.
Trust Company of the West rested its court case against its former chief investment officer, star bond fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach, in the high-stakes trial that has drawn the attention of the financial services industry.
After a summer filled with superheroes, apes running amok and trash-talking comedians, Hollywood's upcoming fall movies focus less on effects-filled blockbusters and more on performance-driven films.
A man from the Channel island of Guernsey became the oldest person to swim across the English Channel on Wednesday. It took him 17 hours.
Researchers have engineered a virus that attacks cancer cells when injected into patients, a form of treatment that could kill tumors without harming healthy cells.
Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most famous conductor, will not take part in a music festival in China later this week, organizers said, with media reporting that he was in hospital in Tokyo for tests.
New York City-based Pfizer Inc. gained FDA approval for their drug Xalkori, the first new medicine in several years for deadly, advanced lung cancer, according to new research.
A study conducted by Duke University shows that for those looking to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is more effective than weight training.
Stock incentives could keep Cook in Cupertino as Apple's head man until at least 2021.
Eating dark chocolate, watching funny movies, and avoiding stressful jobs, are all ingredients in lowering the risk of several heart diseases, according to authors of a new report published in the British Medical Journal on Monday.
The New York Blood Center, which serves more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, is the first blood bank to suffer from an urgent need of blood donors because it lost an estimated 2,000 donations during the Hurricane Irene storm.
Abdelbaset Ali al - Megrahi, who was convicted over the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, is harking on death's door. The Libyan citizen jailed for 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Lockerbie is currently under the care of his family members at his Tripoli home in Libya.
Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel basset al-Megrahi, who had been released by the Scottish government in 2009, is nearing his death and is oscillating in and out of a coma, according to reports.
The Libyan convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has been found in Tripoli and appears at death's door, CNN reported Sunday.
A new prognostic model may predict whether patients with advanced cancer are likely to survive for days, weeks or months, researchers say.
Technology giant Apple rocked the wall Street Wednesday by announcing that its founder-CEO Steve Jobs has resigned from the top post, ending a colorful career that spanned over 14 years.
