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Ladislav Scurko was a 2004 choice for the Philadelphia Flyers. On Monday he was given an eight year sentence in a Slovakian prison for stabbing a referee 14 times in the chest

The generation of British and American musicians who created the extraordinary generation of music and pop culture changes during the 1960s are now dying off.

Is Jesse going to find out Walt killed Brock? What did the opening sequence mean?

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), the world's second-biggest health care company, is expected to report higher second-quarter profit as strong performance of new drugs help mitigate drags from generic competition and strings of recalls.

After former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report on the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse revealed that Pennsylvania State University's once-legendary football coach Joe Paterno actively covered up the scandal, controversy has erupted over the status of Paterno's memorial statue at Penn State.

Previous studies have made the connection between obesity and colon cancer, but a new study is the first to point to a higher risk of adenomas in heavy people.

The researchers say they were able to show that adolescent smoking would be reduced by 18 percent if smoking in PG-13 movies were largely eliminated.

The figure, determined by the British Medical Journal, is almost twice the previously accepted average of six pounds.

The reggae superstar, who died in 1981, now shares his namesake with a Caribbean parasite that feeds on blood of fish.

The potential for a silver, but greasy, lining to a cloudy story about quality control and food safety in China.

After a long feud with FunnyJunk regarding alleged content stealing, Matthew Inman who founded a webcomic called The Oatmeal has held up his end of the deal by posting photos of the bags of money he raised for charity, having surpassed his monetary goal. As promised, 29-year-old Inman posted photos of the $211,223.04 in cash he raised through the help of supporters in the midst of controversy.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez declared himself fully recovered from cancer Monday, three months before an election in which he is seeking another six-year term.

In the event that you ever wanted to walk around with your ta-ta's hanging free, you're in luck today. July 9 is national No Bra Day, as per the national No Bra Day Facebook page created by Anastasia Doughnuts.

Neurofibromatosis type 1 can cause tumors called optic glioma, but until now, scientists didn't know exactly where these tumors came from. Now researchers working with mice have tracked the tumors back to a specific region in the embryonic brain.

A new camera setup devised by UCLA engineers can pick out one breast cancer cell among a million blood cells.

A consumer group said Pfizer partly based its claims that Centrum products promote breast and colon health on the presence of vitamin D in the products, despite inconsistent or inconclusive evidence of vitamin D's protective role against breast and colon cancer.

Good news beachgoers! A sunscreen pill made from coral could one day render suntan lotion nearly obsolete, which would mean no more slathering on the sunblock every time you hit the beach.

On Tuesday, doctors described the removal process of a 51-pound cancerous tumor in the stomach of a New Jersey woman who delayed getting treated because she didn't have health insurance.

Steve Nash might have a post-playing career in the movie business, and that may have swayed his decision to play in Los Angeles.

The dazzling lights of the big city have a dark side: they're interfering with astronomers' work, confusing migratory birds and possibly disrupting your sleep cycle.

From city hospitals to tiny rural clinics, India's public doctors will soon be able to prescribe free generic drugs to all comers, vastly expanding access to medicine in a country where public spending on health was just $4.50 per person last year.