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Study in Sweden links smoking in men to changes in their chromosomes. Loss of the Y chromosome could have health impacts, researchers say.

Study finds many vegetarians unable to stick with it, with a third going back to meat within months. Animal rights group calls results of their own study a bad sign for animals.

Conjoined twin boys born in an Atlanta hospital died one day after their birth. Problems with their shared heart could not be overcome, doctors say.

California sees the highest incidence of whooping cough in nearly 70 years, affecting infants primarily. The respiratory disease can cause serious illness. Here's how to spot its symptoms.

A study shows that taking advantage of technology is effective in ensuring people take their medication on time. A simple text message may be all it takes for patients to stay on track in improving the effects of treatme...

Mom was right when she made you eat your broccoli. Full of sulforaphane, the vegetable has the potential to prevent, slow down, and ultimately stop the spread of cancer in the body.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Patients who relapse in their battle with acute myeloid leukemia may benefit from a phase three study of therapies that combine an existing agent, cytarabine, with a new...

(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) A new type of cancer therapy that targets an oncometabolite produced dramatic results in patients with advanced leukemia in an early-phase clinical trial.

(University of Chicago Medical Center) A large, prospective clinical trial adds to mounting evidence that adolescent and young adult patients -- aged 16 to 39 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia -- fare better when treated...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Although it is among the most highly metastatic of all cancers, multiple myeloma is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, researchers at Dana-Farbe...

(Baylor College of Medicine) An international consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine has identified for the first time a gene associated with familial glioma -- brain tumors that appear in two or mor...

(American Society of Hematology) Recognizing that leukemia cannot be conquered with a 'one-size-fits-all' approach, researchers are pursuing novel targeted therapies and combinations of existing treatment regimens with n...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) An oral targeted drug has shown encouraging activity and tolerable side effects in patients with treatment-resistant or relapsed acute myelogenous leukemia -- a poor-prognosis group with fe...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who rece...

Just in time for World AIDS Day, Steven Anderson delivered a sermon aimed at eradicating the disease in time for Christmas. His intentions were good but his methods? Not so much.

Regular text message can help people on long-term prescriptions for chronic illness in remembering to take their medicines, study finds. Patients receiving the texts called them very beneficial.

Being overweight can takes years off your life and rob you of healthy living years as well, study finds. Chronic heart disease and diabetes are among the ailments obesity can bring into your life, researchers say.

Smartphones and other high-tech devices are getting in the way of our personal relationships, study finds. The distractions and interruptions are coming between couples, researchers say.