Two Utica College students are running across the country for a good cause. Mike Henn and Rob Baird will travel more than 3,000 on foot from Lubec, Maine to Capetown, California all in an effort to raise $1 million for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centres.

Many American teenagers, including some with a normal, healthy weight, already have one or more risk factors for heart disease, researchers say.

Many American teenagers, including some with a normal, healthy weight, already have one or more risk factors for heart disease, researchers say.

A cancer treatment from Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Megan Kowalewski, who finished chemotherapy to treat her Hodgkin lymphoma in April, has a recent PET scan that shows something disheartening.

There they go again those 17 federally appointed experts at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are telling American doctors and patients to stop routinely doing lifesaving tests.

A team of University of Hawaii Cancer Center scientists, led by James Turkson Ph.D., have created a new type of anti-cancer drug named BP-1-102, according to announcement Monday.

Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company's ad claims deceptive.

The fire retardant industry engaged in a decades-long deception about its products, which are often filled with cancerous materials, the Chicago Tribune reports.