About 70 percent of current cancer drugs are either natural products or derived from natural compounds, and the world's largest rain forest is a great cauldron of biodiversity that has already produced medicine for diseases such as malaria.

Disturbing data from the Public Health Agency of Canada reveals that antibiotics such as cephalosporin used in chicken hatcheries across the country is causing human resistance to the medicines, according to a startling report in the Canadian Medical Asso

Each year, 20,000 Americans die from lack of access to healthcare. Almost 50 million people in this country have no insurance. With unemployment skyrocketing and costs continuing to spiral upwards, things will only get worse for us. This is unacceptable.

ALBANY, N.Y- If you drove by Washington Park Sunday afternoon in Albany, then you certainly saw a sea of pink. If you participated in the "Making Strides Walk"

One meal high in saturated fat can affect the body's ability to protect itself against some of the underlying causes of heart disease and stroke.

Billy Best ran away from home in Norwell, Mass., in 1994 to avoid chemotherapy, and today he offered conflicting words of support and opposition to Daniel and Colleen Hauser. The mother and son, who are from Minnesota, are now part of an international--

Steaks, hamburgers, and other red meat could raise younger women's risk for an estrogen-linked form of breast cancer, says a report in Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Meat may increase one's risk of developing many different kinds of cancer.

For many of the estimated 180,000 women whose doctors will tell them they have breast cancer this year, the diagnosis will no doubt come as a shock.