Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 percent across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy "Westernised" lifestyles, a study said on Friday.
Many developing countries were expected to see a rise in living standards in coming decades, said the paper from the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.But those advances could come at a cost - an increase in cases of cancers linked to poor diet, lack of exercise and other bad habits associated with affluence and linked to diseases like breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, it added."Cancer is already the leading cause of death in many high-income countries and is set to become a major cause of morbidity (sickness) and mortality in the next decades in every region of the world," said Freddie Bray from IARC's cancer information section.The study was the first to look at how present and future rates of cancer ..."Britain's heaviest teenager," who is believed to weigh more than 700 pounds (318kg), had to have part of her house demolished because she was too big to leave it.A ...
The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who...
For the first time since being hospitalized for flesh-eating bacteria, Aimee Copeland sat upright in a chair on Tuesday, according to a blog post written by her fath...
A British woman's life is at risk after she contracted rabies from a puppy overseas and was misdiagnosed by doctors at home three times.Rabies was eradicated from th...
Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy by implanting the world's smallest artificial heart to keep the infant alive until a donor was found for a ...
Tragedy was averted on a Little League baseball field when the quick thinking of coaches and nurses saved the life of a 12-year-old boy whose heart stopped beating i...
A Connecticut hospital facing a lawsuit by a woman who says she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery says it deeply regrets what h...
In the first procedure of its kind, skin cells taken from patients suffering from heart failure were "reprogrammed" and changed into heart muscle cells. Not only we...
Hundreds of people marched Monday in support of a man who says the letters KKK were carved into his stomach by a surgeon at a South Dakota hospital.A YouTube video f...
A panicked woman whose husband was unable to breathe was met by a snoring Washington dispatcher when she called 911.The frantic woman was put through to the dispatch...
Bobby Vaughn, the third person reported in recent weeks to be battling a flesh-eating bacteria known as necrotizing fasciitis in Georgia, is facing his sixth surgery...
The father of a young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria says his daughter is now breathing on her own.Andy Copeland says his daughter Aimee was taken of...
Many scientists are working on treatments to help people with spinal cord injuries walk. Now there's a striking new demonstration of how one approach might work: Spi...
A recent plea from New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady inspired a Massachusetts man to donate one of his kidneys to a complete stranger.Peter Hughes, 48, told...
A British woman who contracted rabies after a dog bite in India has died in a London hospital.The unidentified woman, said to be in her 50s, died over the weekend, S...
An Australian teenager who recorded an emotional goodbye video watched by millions on YouTube has died.Melbourne schoolboy Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, lost his fight on...
After losing every one of her limbs from a flesh-eating infection, a 43-year-old Texas mother of three will have another person's arms and hands transplanted onto he...
Emergency vehicles in Denver are being installed with ground-shaking subwoofers as standard in a bid to shift distracted motorists who block their way to the hospita...
Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors ar...
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