A new study has found that smokers who receive encouraging text messages are more likely to be successful in quitting smoking. They study was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Johnson & Johnson has recalled a massive amount of the painkiller Tylenol. Here is a factsheet on all you need to know about the drug, its recall and the company:
The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of banning the use of Avastin in the treatment of breast cancer. However, a significant section of breast cancer patients have said the FDA line is wrong. The Abigail Alliance, a platform of breast cancer patients and their relatives, has said the FDA is making a tragic mistake.
Avastin, one of the best-selling cancer drugs in the world, could be banned from the treatment of breast cancer after the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) panel found for the second time the drug was ineffective and unsafe in breast cancer treatment.
Australian Paleontologists have discovered half-a-billion-year-old fossils that show primitive animals had exceptional vision.
Two new studies have found that even diet sodas can make you gain weight and become fat.
Patients and doctors testify about safety and effectiveness of Avastin to treat advanced breast cancer as the FDA wraps up a two-day hearing on Wednesday.
NASA has captured images from space of several fires raging across the Southwestern part of the U.S.
According to Russian scientist, Andrei Finkelstein, humans are going to meet aliens within 20 years.
Researchers say mammograms prevent deaths from breast cancer, and the number of lives saved increases over time.
Krokodil or Crocodile in Russian is a homemade substitute of heroin, which is casting deathly shadows over the lives of thousands of Russia's drug addicts. It has a reptilian name because the users' skin starts developing crocodile-like unpleasant scales, over repeated use. And that is arguably the least this deadly drug can do to your body. The scales would give way to decaying sores and gray skin. The flesh would soon start to degenerate and would peel away leaving bones exposed....
A team of cave divers have taken an unbelievable photo-reportage of the longest underwater gypsum crystal cave in the world.
The hottest item for soon-to-be parents will be hard to come by after federal safety guidelines take effect on Tuesday after a ban of the cribs, which have been blamed for dozens of deaths.
A list of the major UFO sightings globally after the year 2000.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health agencies are warning consumers not to eat Evergreen Produce brand alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts because they may be linked to 20 cases of salmonella poisoning.
An asteroid, named 2011 MD, barely missed crashing on to the Earth's surface today, but the real danger awaits us in 2182 when a gigantic asteroid may be on a collision course with this planet, astronomers warn.
Researchers at a Japanese university have invented a minuscule, self-propelled, remote-controlled endoscope that can capture images of a human's stomach and colon.
Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences think they have discovered 300 new species during a biological expedition that focused on the Island of Luzon, Philippines, according to the organization's news release.
The last time ‘inflatable shark’ was in news was when someone tried to present one to former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Manhattan mansion where he is under house arrest. The security guards turned away the man who brought a toothy blue fish inflated to the size of a small person and attached with helium balloons.
Residents near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan are passing urine contaminated with radiation, raising concern over permanent dwellings in the region.
On Monday, Earth will encounter an asteroid that will narrowly miss a collision with our planet by a cosmic hair of 7,500 miles. The asteroid called 2011 MD is roughly the size of a large house, 10 meters in diameter, and will fly into our atmosphere zipping by TV satellites.
Lower body fat percentage does not always decrease your chance of having heart disease and diabetes, according to a new study.
Just decades ago, the gray whale hasn't strayed to the Northern Atlantic since the 18th century. The Neodenticula seminae, a species of algae, hasn't been there in 800,000 years. Now, members of both species have been spotted in the Northern Atlantic.
There were 347 million people with diabetes worldwide in 2008, according to international team of researchers working with The World Health Organization (WHO).
A US spacecraft is on track to rendezvous with a huge asteroid in a matter of weeks, NASA said, shedding new light on the history of cosmos.
Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences believe they have identified 300 new species during a biological expedition that focused on the Island of Luzon, Philippines, according to a news release via ScienceDaily.
Have you always dreamed of playing the guitar like Eric Clapton or Slash but didn't have the talent for it? Well, fret no more because scientists at Tokyo University have teamed up with Sony to invent an electric finger stimulator called PossessedHand that will make your fingers move without requiring any input from your brain.
There were 347 million people with diabetes worldwide in 2008, according to international team of researchers working with The World Health Organization (WHO).
NASA has released some rare unseen pictures of the Sun from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms.
The Food and Drug Administration released Friday reducing the dosage for anemia drugs Procrit, Epogen and Aranesp for patients with chronic kidney disease due to increased risks of stroke, blood clots and death. “FDA is recommending new, more conservative dosing recommendations for erythropoiesis-stimulating agents [ESAs] for patients with chronic kidney disease,” Dr. Robert C. Kane