Cigars and pipes are just as lethal as cigarettes and should be subject to equally tough health warnings and advertising bans, says a new study issued by a World Health Organization arm. "They cause

SmithKine Beecham, the UK drugs company is ditching a potentiall important product for the cippling bone condition osteoporosis. The company was abadoning development of idoxifene as a treatment of

Under a provision of the 1949 Geneva Conventions governing the conduct of war, doctors and other health care professionals are supposed to be exempt from deliberate hinderance or attack. But in

French scientists say they have documented that sudden cardiac death, like cardiovascular diseases, may be hereditary. In a long-term study of middle-aged Parisian civil servants, French researchers

A study of more than 100,000 people, some of them tracked for 14 years, has found that eating one egg a day does not appear to raise the risk of heart disease, U.S. researchers reported. It may be

Malaysia said it would kill some stray dogs and test "every species imaginable" after canines were found to have contracted a pig-borne virus that has killed more than 100 people. In the past week,

More than a decade after the explosion ofUkraine's Chernobyl's nuclear power station, the poisonous radioactive legacy of the accident iscrippling the health of younger generations, officials said

Charan Kaur of Bela Dhiani village has lost complete vision in one of her eyes and the visibility in the other has been reduced. The doctors say she has lost her vision due to infection by coal dust

Malaysia said on Tuesday it would test "every species imaginable" after dogs were found to have contracted a pig-borne virus that has killed 99 people. In the past week, the number of deaths and new

A drug used experimentally to help block the cravings of smokers and cocaine addicts may improve memory if given in low doses. Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia have found that the drug,