California lawmakers will consider what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts

The Department of Veterans Affairs has 30 days to pay the fine or challenge it

Cancer is expected to overtake heart disease this year as the number one reason people die in this country. Last year, there were one and a half million new

Three years ago, the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company advertised its Camel No. 9 brand of cigarettes in women's magazines -- like Glamour, Cosmo, and Vogue.  Those

Caraco said it is launching 50 milligram and 100 milligram generic doses of the drug

Brazil's president announced that he has kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.

Two Utah researchers have found a unique connection that may change the way surgeons remove tumors, not only in breast cancer, but other cancers as well.

The vaccine, based on research done at Duke and Johns Hopkins, and produced by Pfizer, is called CDX-110

The benefit was modest — an extra 10 weeks — but cancer specialists were excited because no chemotherapy until now has been shown to boost survival in men who

The new advice is the latest pushback from routine screening to hunt for early cancers

Once deemed medical waste, umbilical cord blood, being rich in stem cells and easier to match than adult bone marrow, has now become a life saver for many

Gather current and former Mossville, Louisiana, residents in a room and you're likely to hear a litany of health problems and a list of friends and relatives

Film critic Roger Ebert  had a head and neck cancer. He suffered complications from surgery to treat the cancer that had spread to the salivary gland

The FDA said Genentech, the biotech unit of Swiss drugmaker Roche Group, can market Rituxan for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL for short

The new risk plan was developed with the FDA following a 2008 meeting