Drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, Daily Mail reported Sunday.

Drinking over the recommended daily limit for alcohol...

China will considerably increase spending on health services in the Tibet region, an official said Sunday.

The expenditure will go up by about 30 percent to 1.4 billion yuan ($225 million) in 2012,...

Cricket all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has been diagnosed with Grade I cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States.

A tumour on his lung was diagnosed as non-malignant late last...

Observing World Cancer Day today, hundreds of people participated in rallies with an aim to create awareness among general masses through 'Cancer Awareness Campaigns' in New Delhi and Mumbai....

Actress Reese Witherspoon has successfully maintained a healthy relationship with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe just for the sake of their two children.

"My ex-husband and I co-parent really well. We...

Rahul Bose and Milind Soman observed World Cancer Day on Saturday by taking part in a cancer awareness campaign.

The campaign was part of Women's Cancer Initiative of the Tata Memorial Hospital,...

As around 8,000 chickens have died of bird flu , or H5N1 virus in the Nepal's Sunsari district in last few days, more traces of the virus have been found in the region, Xinhua reported.

Though it's...

A TV advertising campaign has warned that regularly drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples mouth cancer risk and doubles high blood pressure risk.

The campaign...

Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS Trauma Centre, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night.

Doctors at the hospital are monitoring her...

Lovers of red wine were delighted when it was found to contain resveratrol - a compound supposed to improve health and maybe even lengthen life.

But studies have insisted that to see benefits, you...

Newly divorced middle-aged women are more susceptible to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, a new study has warned.

According to Christopher Coleman, an associate professor at the...

Demi Moore, who has not been spotted since her recent health crisis, is reportedly in a treatment facility and not at her Los Angeles home, as was speculated.

She is said to have checked into Cirque...

Using a liquid laser, researchers have devised a better way to detect the slight genetic mutations that might make a person more vulnerable to a particular type of cancer or other diseases.

This...

World Cancer Day was observed in India on Saturday, and saw the participation of cancer patients and locals in different events aimed at spreading a message of fighting against the deadly disease...

WASHINGTON - Sitting in his pew at St. Louis Catholic Church in Miami one recent Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio heard the same homily as other parishioners who were urged by church leaders nationwide to...

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Compugen Ltd. surged to the highest level in six years on speculation the use of one of its products in cancer treatment research will boost...

For many children, and even adults, hearing loud or intense noises is startling. But for those with auditory processing disorder, it can be debilitating. Mary Vozza realized her 5-year-old son John...

Published Date: December 29, 2011 BUENOS AIRES: Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery next week, two months after being...

related content We face these situations regularly, both with patients and friends. When experts disagree, the debates are interesting, but, as practicing physicians, we can find ourselves in the...

Elvira Nunziata fell down a stairwell and died at a Pinellas Park nursing home. A $200 million verdict is proving difficult to collect. (Family...

NaturalNews February 5, 2012 The media is abuzz with chatter about Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s flip-flopping on the issue of whether or not to fund Planned Parenthood, the controversial...

A Columbia-based advocacy group that sued South Carolina's prisons agency over the care of mentally ill inmates is finally getting its day in court. Circuit Court Judge Michael Baxley is...

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun reacts to a call during an NCAA college basketball against Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind. Calhoun is taking an indefinite...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : India today called for deepening cooperation among the countries of South Asia to address the common health problems facing the...

Buffalo Bishop Edward Kmiec (KIM-eck) is urging pastors to speak with parishioners about an issue that's causing an uproar in the Catholic church: A government mandate requiring even...

Hotels in Jordan are seeing unusually high occupancy rates this year, due to the great number of Libyans coming to the country for medical treatment, Jordan Times has reported. Occupancy rates in the...

The left-hander had been receiving treatment for what was thought to be a non-malignant tumour in his lungs since November last year, but the situation has worsened. It has been revealed that it is...

Rambam Medical Center Public Affairs and Spokesman David Ratner, Director Haifa, 5 February 2012 Just a Heartbeat...

Human neural stem cells are capable of helping people regain learning and memory abilities lost due to radiation treatment for brain tumors, a University of California, Irvine (UCI) study...

New Delhi, Feb 5 : Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has urged the South Asian Forum for Health Research (SAFHeR) to explore ways for strengthening collaboration by sharing...

A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and part of an esophagus to replace the ones...

The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Bahrain and SAH Global have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to make cutting edge proton therapy cancer treatment available to Bahraini cancer...

India's World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh is expected to be fit to play in May after undergoing treatment for lung cancer in the United States, his physiotherapist said...

TORONTO -; Today is World Cancer Day and this year's theme is "Together it is possible." Every year cancer takes the lives of over seven million people worldwide, and World Cancer Day...

A Government campaign is due to advise that regularly drinking two large glasses of wine or two pints of beer a day could triple the risk of mouth cancer. The new adverts aim to show that even...

Drinking two glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day can triple the risk of mouth cancer, a government campaign will warn. Photograph: Tracy...

One of the first obstacles I hear from clients trying to stick to their weight loss goals is while dining out on the weekends.  Knowing how to navigate a menu can help you from veering off...

Cardiologists from the Dubai Health Authority recently performed a minimally invasive cardiac procedure for five elderly patients in Dubai. The latest technique, known as Transcatheter Aortic Valve...

WAM Dubai, Feb 5th, 2012 (WAM) -- The Health Regulation Department at the Dubai Health Authority recently organized a series of workshops for the health sector to educate them about the new health...

Unpredictable, ever-changing and with potentially far-reaching effects on the fates of nations, infectious diseases are compelling actors in the drama of human history, note scientists from the...

For the first time, scientists have tracked the activity, across the lifespan, of an environmentally responsive regulatory mechanism that turns genes on and off in the brain's executive hub....

Tuberculosis patients may receive treatments in the future according to what version they have of a single 'Goldilocks' gene, says an international research team from Oxford University,...

It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of...

Stroke experts from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center presented research updates at the International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Feb. 1 through Feb. 3...

National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health...

Intermittent exercise with and without low oxygen concentrations (or hypoxia) can improve insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetics, however exercise while under hypoxic conditions provides greater...

osteoporosis , according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Osteoporosis and heart failure are...