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London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has taken the unusual step of cancelling a state visit scheduled for next month amid reports of concern over the health of her 87-year-old husband, Prince Philip, it was reported Friday.
However, Buckingham Palace, while confirming a cancellation, insisted that the trip, to an undisclosed...
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Former Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel, an icon of anti-communist resistance, has been treated in a Prague hospital with "an inflammatory illness," his office said Tuesday.
Havel underwent an operation at hospital's otorhinolaryngology clinic, hospital spokeswoman Eva Jurinova said. She said his condition was...
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Former hardline Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos, who led his community to reject a United Nations peace plan to reunite the divided island of Cyprus, died following a long battle with cancer on Friday. He was 74. Papadopoulos had been suffering from lung cancer and was admitted to a hospital on November 22 where his condition...
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Representatives from over 120 governments are scheduled to meet in Rome next week to decide whether to add two pesticides and an industrial chemical to an international list of potentially hazardous substances, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday.
Under review are endosulfan, a pesticide used in...
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 An 18-year old study shows that people who live in areas with high concentrations of ozone are 25 percent to 30 percent more likely to die from respiratory illnesses than those who live in areas with cleaner air. Scientists of the University of California and Berkley reported on Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine that...
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 The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month lasts all October. This is the only celebration which helps bringing people together to raise awareness about the terrible type of cancer because of which so many women die annually. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States, as the Centers for Disease Control and...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 Lance Armstrong, a retired American professional
road racing cyclist, the only individual to win the Tour de France seven times,
joined efforts with four former U.S.
surgeons general on Wednesday to raise awareness to fight cancer.
Armstrong, a testicular cancer survivor, addressed
the media at the National Call to Action on...
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 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Genentech Inc.’s drug, Avastin, in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy, for the treatment of breast cancer, the company announced on Friday, despite the industry watchers’ expectation that the FDA would either postpone or reject the use of the drug at this time.Avastin is considered...
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The leading biotechnology company Genentech Inc. said a Phase III study of its drug Avastin focusing on early-stage colon cancer will not be discontinued.The 2,710-patient clinical study, which is carried out by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), involves a two-drug combination treatment. Avastin was...
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 Combining Tarceva and Avastin drugs for treating lung cancer don’t seem to work as expected. Roche Holding AG stated on Monday that these drugs don’t show any decrease in the death caused by this type of cancer. Both Tarceva and Avastin are used as “smart bomb” drugs. They track the sick cells and kill them while leaving the healthy...
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 The American Cancer Society and other health groups
recommend that people should be routinely screened for colorectal cancer with
more sensitive and less invasive tests that detect precancerous lesions and
malignancies in their early stages.
These recommendations refer to genetic tests on the stool
and virtual colonoscopy....
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 Although there have been many
studies warning that smoking is an unhealthy habit, a recently released study
highlights the risk of dying due to smoking. The new study, published Thursday
in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that in India one million people are expected to die
every year in the next decade from tobacco-related...
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 Pollution has always been thought to reduce survival due to
its noxious effects on people’s health. Previous studies have linked pollution
to increased risk of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, asthma and other
serious diseases.
A study published in Thursday’s New England of Medicine
shows that people who live in areas with the...
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 A plane crashed in an empty parking lot of a shopping center on Tuesday morning in Easton, Massachusetts. The plane was owned by a nonprofit organization that schedules free flights for sick people to treatment centers. The three people onboard, a cancer patient, his wife and the pilot, died on the spot.Robert H. Gregory, 46 and his wife...
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 The Chicago Health Department is getting ready to enforce
its plan of a statewide smoking ban in bars, restaurants and most public places
that goes into effect on New Year's Day. Some bars and restaurants have already
cut off smoking. Others are waiting until the law goes into effect next
Tuesday.
There will definitely be some...
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 Representative Julia Carson, a Democrat and long-standing opponent of
the war in Iraq, died Saturday of lung cancer, her office and local
newspaper said.
Carson, age 69, represented the Indianapolis district since 1996,
when she became the first woman and African-American the Indiana city
had ever sent to Congress. Carson, who was...
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 Tarceva, a new drug released by OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its partners from Melville, may do miracles for the ones who have lung cancer. The doctors announced on Friday that Tarceva could really help in slowing down the process of lung cancer if it’s given after chemotherapy is over.A month ago another study on the same issue showed...
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 The US Food and Drug Administration
announced Tuesday it approved a new test for aggressive breast cancer called
the SPOT-Light test by Invitrogen Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif.
The test measures the number of copies of
the HER2 gene in tumour issue. A packet of 20 test kits will cost $1,400. Patients
who suffer from this form of...
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 Despite the recommendation of an advisory panel, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration issued a preliminary approval for Genentech’s Avastin, for the treatment of breast cancer, the company announced on Friday. The decision, even though is not final and will require additional steps from Genentech, has already pushed the company's...
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 According to the Biotechnology company Genentech Inc., its
cancer drug Avastin showed positive results in treating brain cancer over a
six-month period.
The company said a midstage study of Avastin showed that 36
percent of patients given the drug lived progression-free from relapsed
glioblastoma multiforme for six months....
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 Alan Landers, the man who was an active participant in Winston’s ads campaigns and was known for years as a cigarette advocate, died at 68. His fate took an interesting spin when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. His whole life changed and from a heavy smoker he became a highly visible fighter against smoking. Landers, who surnamed him...
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 The Genentech’s most important drug, Avastin,
a drug used to treat breast, colon and lung cancer by cutting off the blood
supply to tumors, may not be as effective as the Food and Drug Administration
had understood when it approved its uses. The US Food and Drug Administration
approved the drug in combination with paclitaxel...
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 A tobacco bill is waiting for approval in the U.S. Congress
that would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration the power to control tobacco.
The proposed legislation would prohibit cigarettes flavoured
with strawberry, chocolate and a number of other fruit, candy and spice
flavorings. Those flavorings have...
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 According to a study that involved more than 77,000 vitamin
users, vitamin supplements do not protect against lung cancer, but may even
increase the risk of developing it, Science Daily informs.
The study is one of the most detailed observational studies
looking on the effect of vitamin supplements instead of vitamins from...
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 Despite the recommendation of the advisory panel, the U. S.
Food and Drug Administration issued a preliminary approval for Genentech’s
Avastin, for the treatment of breast cancer, the company announced on Friday.
Last week, Genentech said that a study of Avastin in
combination with chemotherapy prolonged progression-free survival...
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 The number of adults seeking medical help for cannabis
addiction has risen by 50% since Labour downgraded the drug, health authority
figures show.
Over 16,500 adults sought treatment for cannabis use in
England in 2006/7 compared with 11,057 two years earlier when the drug moved
from Class B to C.
Currently 500 adults and...
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 A new cancer blood test may help doctors find cancers
earlier and monitor cancer treatment by using microchip technology to sift
blood to search for circulating tumor cells (CTCs), which come from solid
tumors and roam through the blood.
The developers of the test call it a "new and effective tool"
that has "broad...
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 Studies show that smokers suffer considerable more lung
damage in one inhale compared to those you smoke tobacco. The chemicals cannabis
smokers are exposed to are far more harmful than those of tobacco.
In tests, directly inhaled cannabis smoke contained 20 times
more ammonia than cigarette smoke, five times more hydrogen cyanide...
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 According to scientists, two genetic mutations which could
triple the risk of developing bowel cancer have been discovered.
Earlier this year, a study funded by Cancer Research UK
found the first section of the human genome linked to bowel cancer.
Now the team has found another two mutations which could
raise the overall risk...
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 Already known to cause lung cancer, heart disease and
stroke, researcher report that smoking also exponentially raises the risk for
the most common form of diabetes.
The Swiss researchers found that smokers faced a 44 percent
increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, when compared to nonsmokers.
Dr. Carole Willi of the...
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 According to a new study from the National Cancer Institute,
people who eat a lot of red and processed meats have a higher risk of
developing several types of cancer, including lung cancer and colorectal
cancer.
For the study, researchers examined data from a large U.S.
diet and health study, which began in 1995 and involved...
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 It may be possible to use a blood test to detect lung
cancer, according to a Duke University Medical Center-led study.
Publishing in the Dec. 10 issue of the Journal of Clinical
Oncology, researchers said a test for four blood proteins -- CEA, RBP, SCC and
AAT -- may provide a simple follow-up for patients who've had suspicious...
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 Genentech Inc. faces a high-stakes decision by a government
panel Wednesday over the cancer drug Avastin.
Experts advising the Food and Drug Administration will vote
on whether Avastin should be approved as a breast cancer treatment in
conjunction with chemotherapy. The vote will guide FDA regulators when they
decide in February...
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 A new study says that CT Scan overuse could be putting many
people at an increased risk for developing cancer. The findings regarding
the CT Scan - cancer link are disturbing, especially as they come on the heels
of other research that found pregnant women are now being exposed to twice as
much radiation through CT Scans as they...
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 According to a new study, violence depicted on television,
in films and video games raises the risk of aggressive behavior in adults and
young viewers and poses a serious threat to public health, according to a new
study.
After reviewing more than 50 years of research on the impact
of violence in the media, L. Rowell Huesmann, of...
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 According to the ACS (American Cancer Society), breast
cancer accounts for nearly one in three cancers diagnosed in American women.
About 178,480 women will be found to have invasive breast cancer in 2007,
according to the ACS. More than 40,000 will die. Breast cancer is the second
leading cause of cancer deaths in women, exceeded...
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 Being exposed to traffic fumes increases your risk of heart attack by a third, according to a German study presented at this week’s American Heart Association meeting in Palm Harbor, Florida.The study was made by Annette Peters, PhD, and colleagues at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany. They interviewed...
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 Screening regularly for colorectal cancer is critical for early diagnosis and treatment of the disease, but can be time consuming and a low health priority for men and women. However experts said colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, after lung cancer. According to the American...
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 Healthy men who are worried about prostate
cancer should consider taking a drug called finasteride daily to reduce their
risk of developing the condition. Finasteride is sold by Merck as Proscar to
treat swollen prostates and as Propecia to treat baldness.
The recommendation especially applies for
men with a normal reading on the...
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 It is known that viamin D plays a crucial
role in helping our immune system fight back diseases. The deficiency of
vitamin D during childhood and adolescence has outcomes later in life like the
risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, the risk of developing cancer
disease, or osteoporosis.
In the study published in the Archives...
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 Iressa is a new pill designed to cure lung cancer. Researchers reported on Thursday that Iressa has shown incredible results when it comes to cure the lung cancer by itself. Even if the disease is advanced, the pill can easily replace the standard chemotherapy. Iressa is released by AstraZeneca and its treatment is a daily one. The...
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 U.S. researchers have recently tracked the relationships between some patients who had lung cancer and their doctors. The researchers have reached the conclusion that when the patients try to seek for emotional support the doctors aren’t so open-minded in offering it. Even if the patients look for some advice or just support, doctors...
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 The burning incense creates a pleasant scent. The incense has been used in many religious and spiritual ceremonies from a lot of cultures for millennia . For example, in Asia, people use to burn incense in their homes and this has become very popular for Western countries.Still, no matter how sweet may be the scent of the incense,...
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 More and more teenagers start to smoke. Some of them find it enjoyable and some don’t want to try a second time. Scientists have discovered that the people who have enjoyed smoking from their first puff have something related to a variant gene. These are the people who were likely to become the regular smokers.Scientists from the...
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 Between higher hip bone mineral density (BMD) or having stronger bones and the risk of a woman developing breast cancer there is a causal connection, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona College of Public Health found. The study consisted in researchers analyzing health records of 9,941 postmenopausal women who...
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People with lung problems
should not approach campfires, fireplaces and fireworks because open
fires can worsen their condition, the Hanover-based German Lung
Foundation advised It noted that wood burning produced smoke
the components of which not only increased the risk of lung cancer, but
were also conducive to inflammations in...
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 A new study published in the New England
Journal of Medicine suggests an experimental immune system treatment that uses
the patient’s own cells might be an effective treatment for deadly skin cancers
called melanomas.
A 52-year-old man with recurrent melanoma,
which had already spread to a lung and a lymph node in his groin get...
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 Should we trust all health studies and researches published
in the mass-media? Sometimes studies prove to be very tricky and one may find it
difficult to avoid mass media’s manipulation. Sometimes you may not know what
was behind a study.
In 2006, a tobacco company supported a study that claimed 80
percent of lung cancer...
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 A landmark study published in October 2006 in The New England Journal of Medicine, which concluded that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans, has been funded by a cigarette company through a front "charity."The New York Times has analyzed tax records filed by the so-called...
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 Bayer HealthCare and co-developer
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc announced on Monday that they had halted a late-stage
trial of Nexavar, a medicine administered to patients diagnosed with non-small
cell lung cancer.
A monitoring committee said that
the medicine will not meet its primary goal of improved overall survival that
is...
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 A second late-stage trial for
Avastin drug proved to be efficient in prolonging progression-free survival in
some breast cancer patients, which was Genentech’ s primary goal.
Genentech Inc said on Tuesday
that the new study sponsored by Roche Holding AG, in which Avastin was combined
with docetaxel chemotherapy, was...
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Researchers have come to a conclusion that something as
available and as common as sunlight may help prevent the spreading of some
forms of lung cancer.
A new study finds that lower levels of the sun's ultraviolet
B (UVB) rays are associated with a higher incidence of lung cancer across 111
countries.
Still, that doesn't...
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 The American Cancer Society released a rather macabre study
on Monday saying that about 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide
from various types of cancer, with lung cancer, heavily driven by smoking, killing
975,000 men and 376,000 women.
In all, about 12.3 million people will develop cancer this
year, the organization...
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 According to a recent research conducted by a group of
scientists, the belief that smoking could further affect breast cancer in women
is totally false.
It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not
appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more
aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the...
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 First-degree smokers are not the only ones affected by
smoking, secondhand smokers are just as in danger, and so are their house pets.Recent veterinary studies performed in the USA show that
secondhand smoke not only threats the health of nonsmokers, it can also hurt
house pets such as dogs and cats.
“Secondhand smoke has been...
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 According to recent reports made public by a Dutch science lab researching
the effects of smoking, people who smoke are 50 percent more likely to develop
Alzheimer's disease or dementia than people who do not smoke or who givven up smoking.
Researchers announced these results after analyzing seven years of data from
almost 7,000...
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 Soprano Beverly Sills, born Belle Miriam Silverman, has died of lung cancer at her Manhattan home on Monday at 78. Sills had Ukrainian and Romanian Jewish background and was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she was known, among friends, as "Bubbles" Silverman."She was one great lady," New York City Opera chairwoman...
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 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds became baseball's home run king after he slammed his 756th homer on Tuesday night to surpass Hank Aaron, who set the notorious record 31 years ago with the Milwaukee Brewers. With one of his team mates struck out in the fifth inning, Bonds hit a 3-2 pitch of Washington Nationals' Mike Bacsik into...
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 Watson set the International League record on Sunday when he singled off J.D. Durbin in the sixth inning of the Columbus Clippers' 9-8 loss to the Ottawa Lynx to continue his streak reaching 43 hitting games. The Washington Nationals were very impressed and will formally bring back Watson from Class AAA Columbus today “He's earned this...
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 The AMC’s series, “Breaking Bad,” which premiered in January 2008, is ready to be launched for its second season. Many viewers are waiting to see the adventures of a high school chemistry teacher, played by Bryan Cranston. In a world full of problems that may be compared with those of the Old Testament’s Job - Walt White, a high school...
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 Bob Barker wrapped up his last last round of "The Price Is Right" on Wednesday, which started with a shower of confetti and a standing ovation. Barker's final hour on "The Price Is Right" will air on June 15 on CBS. "I thank you for inviting me into your homes for more than 50 years," Barker said in the...
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 American country singer Merle Haggard was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, his spokesman said on Sunday. On Monday he had to undergo a surgery in a hospital from Bakersfield, California, to remove one of his lungs. 71-year-old Haggard is recovering at home and he stated that he had started to feel “better and better each day.”...
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 Paul Newman, the famous American actor, film director and humanitarian died at the age of 83 of lung cancer on Friday, September 26. The former smoker received treatment at Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City where he became very thin and weak. In August the actor finished chemotherapy and wished to die at home in Westport,...
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 Paul Newman, the famous American actor, film director and humanitarian died at the age of 83 of lung cancer. On 23 May 2008 he was scheduled to make his professional directorial stage debut with John Steinbeck’s production “Of Mice and Men” at the Westport Country Playhouse, but he gave them up citing health issues. Newman had lung...
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 Actor Paul Newman’s friend, 92-year-old A. E. Hotchner, has
allegedly changed his statement concerning his friend’s health state.
Apparently, the man, who is also Newman’s business partner, never confirmed that
the 83-year-old actor was battling terminal lung-cancer. Hotchner claims that
The Associated Press misquoted him.
Access...
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 Since the beginning of this week rumors that the legendary
actor, Paul Newman, was severely ill with terminal lung-cancer have been
circulating. Newsday.com reports that 83-year-old Newman was allegedly
diagnosed at Manhattan’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center
and that he has been undergoing out-patient treatment.
Newman’s...
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 Tatum O’Neal was arraigned yesterday in Manhattan Criminal
Court on a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance,
The 44-year-old actress entered no plea and was released
without bail until a July 28 court date. It seems that prosecutors recommended
drug treatment for O’Neal, who detailed her dependency on...
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Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal was arrested in New York, Manhattan
on Sunday for buying crack cocaine, Reuters reports. It appears that
44-year-old O’Neal was arrested after she was seen making a purchase from a drug
dealer.
The suspected drug dealer, Alan Garcia, 33, was also arrested.
O’Neal is charged...
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 Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol in Laguna Beach, California. TMZ reports that the artist was pulled over by the Laguna Beach police at about 11 p.m. because he was allegedly spotted “weaving” in a black Hummer.
According to The Associated...
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 Porter Wagoner stopped the more than 50-years flirt with the
country music, whose incontestable icon he soon became. Lung cancer didn’t
forgive the 80-year old country singer, who passed away at Alive Hospice
facility in Nashville.
Wagoner’s first contact with the music industry happened while
he was working in a butcher’s shop...
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 The New Jersey farm boy who founded the legendary punk rock club CBGB responsible for discovering performers including the Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads and the Ramones, passed away on Tuesday (August 28) at the age of 75. Hilly Kristal’s daughter, Lisa, said he died in his sleep but he had suffered lung cancer and complications from...
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 "Price Is Right" host Bob Barker, who has been on the show for about 35 years, announced he is about to quit. "This is an appropriate time for me to retire," Bob Barker says. "It's not just that I want to retire while I'm young. It marks the 50th anniversary of my time on television, and it marks the 35th year of...
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