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

Discovery Labs said it will focus on testing the drug on prematurely born lambs instead of premature infants

The $20 stool test — usually handed over by a doctor, performed at home and then mailed to a lab — is considered as effective if properly used once a year

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a

The latest clinical evidence suggests users are not getting the addictive substance they get from smoking tobacco

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is responsible for one out of every eight deaths worldwide