Military investigators said Thursday that wreckage found on an Alaskan glacier is from an Air Force cargo plane that crashed almost 60 years ago, killing all 52 people aboard.
Michael Jackson's 13-year-old Bengal tiger, Thriller, died following a battle with lung cancer, according to actress Tippi Hedren, who runs a wildlife preserve where the tiger has been housed after Jackson's death.
Don Grady, the actor remembered as one of Mickey Mouse's original Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas, from My Three Sons, died on June 27 in Los Angeles. He was 68. Ginny Grady, the actor's wife, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the California native died after a four-year battle with cancer.
LiveDeal, Orexigen Therapeutics, Lincare Holdings, Synta Pharmaceuticals, Barclays, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.
After two years of partisan arguments surrounding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court will finally make its call on Thursday.
The condition that claimed When Harry Met Sally screenwriter Nora Ephron's life occurs when a person's bone marrow malfunctions and does not produce enough normal blood cells.
A new campaign has been making its rounds on the Internet and on posters in major cities, rousing controversy for its slogan, ?Deserve to Die,? targeting hipsters, cat lovers, crazy old aunts and the genetically privileged. While the provocative ad has sparked much anger after it went viral, the message from NoOneDeservesToDie.org is quite the opposite of offensive: To raise awareness about a deadly disease that doesn't discriminate against people nicknamed the killer.
In Alabama deaths from lung cancer per 100,000 women increased from 6.9 to 10.7 among the 40 to 44 age group while deaths fell from 6.1 to 2.8 per 100,000 for the same cohort in California.
Could the timing be any better? Worse?
Exposure to plastic ingredient bisphenol A in the womb appears to have later effects on estrogen sensitivity in female mice, according to new research.
Gamification - turning boring, unpleasant but necessary tasks into an online game - is a new way of thinking that is gaining momentum among drugmakers and health campaigners.
A Today show shake-up is underway as Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb have been named as possible replacements for Ann Curry, who reportedly may get $10 million from NBC in exchange for stepping down from her post on America's No. 1 morning show.
Having the hiccups for even an hour is irritating, but can you imagine having them for twenty-seven years? Believe it or not, having the hiccups for more than a quarter century is not a world record and Bob Taylor doesn't plan on sacrificing his peace to break it.
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) CEO Larry Page has lost his voice, must avoid speaking and won?t deliver a speech at a Google developers? event this week in San Francisco.
The fate of the Obama administration's health care reform law may finally be settled this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court is widely expected to finally announce whether the politically charged law will live or die.
A powerful anti-smoking ad from Thailand where children with cigarettes in their hands ask smokers for a light and the smokers chide them on the harmful effects of puffing tobacco has gone viral.
Goodbye, Yves Saint Laurent. Hello, Saint Laurent Paris. This fall, fashion house Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) will change its name to Saint Laurent Paris, according to Women's Wear Daily. The French brand's creative director, Hedi Slimane, confirmed to WWD that YSL will re-brand itself. Saint Laurent will make its debut when the Spring 2012 collection hits stores.
The amount of curveballs thrown in Dallas Episode 3, titled The Price You Pay, would have any fixed viewer's head spinning. J.R. and John Ross team up? Christopher and Elena kiss? Rebecca is more devious than one could ever have imagined?
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, QuinStreet, Molycorp, EZchip Semiconductor, Red Hat, Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Mechel OAO, Chimera Investment and Nokia Corp. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Thursday.
Air India's contingency plan was disrupted Tuesday after 30 of its 120 executive pilots, deployed by the national carrier to run its international flying operations in the wake of the pilots' strike, reported sick, reports said Wednesday.
New York City residents added 10 years to their life expectancy between 1987 and 2009, according to a new report.
For the third time in a mere two weeks, the motorcade of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been involved in a fatal accident. Who is to blame?
