The World Health Organization estimates tobacco use kills 1 adult every 6 seconds. Saturday’s World No Tobacco Day hopes to reverse that deadly trend.

Researchers at a leading children’s hospital hold a new kind of science fair — one where professionals compete and the public is invited to watch.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are using precision lasers to effectively treat early vocal cord cancers without reducing the patient’s voice quality. The pulsed Potassium-Titanyl-Phosphate laser being used at MGH is an angiolytic laser that uses wavelengths of laser light to specifically target diseased cells without damaging healthy vocal cord tissue. A team led [...]

A whimsical castle and some fun gifts help a US cancer center get sick children over their fear of radiation sessions used to treat their disease.

A University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study suggests firefighters may face an increased risk of developing transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), a cancer of the bladder. Firefighters are regularly exposed to smoke and chemical fumes known to be carcinogenic. The body absorbs carcinogens and transfers them to the blood, where they are filtered by the [...]

Cancer advocates rejoice as President Bush signs GINA, a bill which prohibits employers and health insurers from discrimination based on genetic information.

Filmmaker and cancer pre-vivor Joanna Rudnick chronicles the struggles of women with a genetic predisposition to cancer — her project airs Oct 7th on PBS.

Web tools and social networking sites are changing how cancer patients approach treatment — a new report analyzes the trend that’s transforming medicine.

Biomedical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University create new computer software designed to recognize precise protein patterns associated with human cancers.

Belfast scientists build an antenna for creating wireless networks on the body — technology that could have doctors checking vital signs on their cell phones.