U.S. scientists found that the amount of calcium in the coronary artery can predict an indication of a person's risk of future heart disease.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine tested some 6,700 Americans groups - white, black, Chinese and Hispanic, who were followed for an average of 3.8 years. They found that people with moderate amounts of calcium in their arteries had more than seven times greater risk of cardiac heart disease than those without calcium deposits

A new study shows that resveratrol, the antioxidant found in red wine, kills cancer cells from the inside and improves the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatments.

Researchers, led by Paul Okunieff, M.D., chief of Radiation Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center, showed that the natural antioxidant from grape skins and red wine crippled the function of pancreatic cancer cell's core energy source or mitochondria

A new study indicates that more women can do something to protect themselves from recurrence of breast cancer.

Women whose tumors were supplied by estrogen can now take the drug tamoxifen after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Tamoxifen supports only for five years but after five years, it may be unsafe

A Massachusetts scientists has received more than $1 million in grant to fund his research on the use of Salmonella bacteria to kill cancer tumor.

Neil Forbes, an assistant professor in the chemical engineering department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, needs further research on the technique that he successfully tested in laboratory mice with cancer. In his experiments, a combination of Salmonella bacteria and radiation therapies prolonged the lives of mice beyond 30 days

Heavy mobile phone users are at an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland and mouth than those who do not talk on them at all, an Israeli study suggests.

Research author Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, a cancer specialist at Tel Aviv University, looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls