The privately held Sientra Inc. on Friday joined the publicly traded Allergan Inc. and Johnson & Johnson (Mentor Worldwide LLC) as the only three companies to have won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals to market controversial silicone gel-filled breast implants.
Majority of parents in the U.S. are neglecting an early eye check-up of their infants, the American Optometric Association's (AOA) 2011 American Eye-Q survey has revealed.
Coca-Cola and Pepsi will change their soft drink recipes in order to avoid a law that would put a cancer-warning label on every can and bottle.
Coke and Pepsi will reduce the amount of caramel coloring in their sodas so they won't be required to add a cancer warning label. However, both companies maintain their products have always been safe.
Scientists have found a way to trick the immune system into accepting organs from a mismatched, unrelated organ donor, a finding that could help patients avoid a lifetime of drugs to prevent rejection of the donated organ.
Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the U.S. surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994.
My dear Aunt Louise’s husband of 52 years was dying.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was sportive enough to post a YouTube viral video which spoofed his address to the chief American-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on his official Facebook page.
Whoopi Goldberg claimed on the View that the National Enquirer published a casket photo of her dead father on the cover, but the Enquirer says they never did.
Campbell's announced that they will phase the controversial chemical BPA out from all of its cans. The announcement comes as the FDA considers a ban on BPA in all food and drink packages.
Fifty years after top doctors issued their first stark warning about the dangers of cigarettes, more than 20 percent of Britons still smoke -- and unless they quit, half of them will die from the habit, health experts on Tuesday.
Beyond the Sling is out in stores.
The world is saying happy birthday today to Gabriel García Márquez, a Nobel Laureate and one of the most beloved living authors, who is perhaps best known for his 1967 masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.), a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus as well as New Jersey’s first African-American representative, died Tuesday of colon cancer.
U.S. regulators said soft drinks from PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co posed no health risk, contrary to a U.S. watchdog group that reported several popular brands contain high levels of a chemical linked to cancer in animals.
Rumors about Erdogan’s health have festered since last November when the Prime Minister underwent surgery on his lower intestines, followed by another procedure in February.
Chemical analyses have found that high levels of a chemical that causes tumors in animals are present in drinks made by Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, according to a report by a consumer advocacy group.
Gone are the days of Green Bay Packers linebacker's, AJ Hawk, golden blonde hair flowing from underneath his helmet. Hawk showed off his new haircut on Friday in photos posted on Twitter, after he cut his hair for a charity for children.
How much drinking kids and teens had seen in recent movies was linked to the chances they overdid it on alcohol themselves in a new study from six European countries.
Rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, best known for his work as a member of the band Montrose, died on Saturday, after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 64.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez confirmed this weekend that he had suffered a recurrence of cancer, saying he would need radiotherapy treatment after the removal of another tumor even though there was no evidence of metastasis.
Even as a national debate rages over contraception insurance, tens of thousands of low-income women and teenagers across the United States have lost access to subsidized birth control as states slash and restructure family planning funds.
