A test that looks for the virus found in 99 percent of cervical tumors is far more effective than a Pap smear for detecting the early stages of cervical cancer, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday.
Alternative medicine has been touting the health benefits of garlic for centuries, from its anti-bacterial and antifungal properties, to its positive effects on the cardiovascular system.
Lupeol, a compound in fruits like mangoes, grapes and strawberries, appears to be effective in killing and curbing the spread of cancer cells in the head and neck, a study in Hong Kong has found.
Only 60 percent of AIDS patients in Africa still take the drugs they need to stay alive two years after starting treatment, researchers reported, noting a grim reason many stopped: death.
Russia`s heaviest-ever newborn baby, born in the Altai Territory in southern Siberia in September, has been allowed to go home, the chief of the department for infant pathology said Monday.
Good news on the cancer front: Death rates are dropping faster than ever, thanks to new progress against colorectal cancer.
Women are dying from complicated pregnancies and childbirth at almost the same rate they were in 1990, and the vast majority of deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, a report said Friday.
A French explorer unveiled plans on Friday to fly over the Arctic in an airship to measure the ice cap amid concern at the pace it is melting.
Nearly 12 percent of Americans ages 45 to 64 face work limitations because of arthritis, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report on Thursday.
If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that`s because maybe it is.
Runners who buy expensive training shoes in the belief that these are less likely to cause injury are deluding themselves, according to a study that appears on Thursday.
The widely used chemotherapy drug Taxol does not work for the most common form of breast cancer and helps far fewer patients than has been believed, surprising new research suggests.
Blood transfusions may do more harm than good for a majority of patients because banked blood begins to lose a key gas almost immediately after it is donated, researchers said Monday.
A crocodile with the nickname Godzilla is on the run in the Southeast of Ukraine and is proving to be a particularly elusive beast. Residents of the city of Mariupol have been desperately trying to catch the escaped reptile for almost five months.
Americans Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing a technology for manipulating genes in mice.
A 46-year-old man in Greece has died from health complications related to the rare brain-debilitating disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) but there is no link to mad cow disease, health officials said Saturday.
The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain, researchers said on Thursday.
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.
The number of children who have contracted acute intestinal infection has increased to 82 in the city of Lermontov in Russia▓s southern Stavropol Terrritory.
Women stand a better chance of surviving breast cancer if they are over 40 years old when diagnosed, new research released Wednesday showed.
Hundreds of Indonesians have begun evacuating the slopes of a rumbling volcano in East Java following increased levels of toxic fumes and tremors, a local rescue official said on Thursday.
Hospitals in Iraq`s northern oil hub are reporting up to 100 new cases of cholera a day as the bacterial disease continues to spread across the country, a top medical official said Monday.
Teenagers who feel relaxed after their first drags on a cigarette are most likely to become addicted to smoking, a sign that some people`s brains are more susceptible to nicotine, researchers said on Monday.
People who lead a good clean life -- those who are conscientious, self-disciplined and scrupulous - appear to be less likely to develop Alzheimer`s disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
People who develop cervical or testicular cancer may face another harsh reality: they are more likely to get divorced than those without the disease, a new study says.