Pediatricians are urging the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration to take a bolder step in regulating the sale of over-the-counter cold medicine for children.

Early this year, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory for parents and caregivers not to give their children below 2 years old OTC cough and cold drugs because of the serious and potentially life-threatening side effects of these medications. The advisory includes decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines and antitussives commonly used to treat colds

The discovery of a 50-year-old human tissue sample in an African university shows that HIV/AIDS pandemic in humans originated at least three decades earlier than previously thought.

Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and lead author of the study suggests that AIDS may have been triggered by rapid urbanization in west-central Africa during the early 20th century and the virus most likely started circulating among humans in sub-Saharan Africa sometime between 1884 and 1924

Vitamin C supplements may significantly reduce the effectiveness of several anti-cancer drugs by protecting the mitochondria, according to a new study published Wednesday.

A team of New York researchers gave large doses of vitamin C, equivalent of a 2,000-milligram, to mice with tumors prior to chemotherapy. The researchers found that the vitamin C reduced the effectiveness of the chemotherapy by about 30 percent to 70 percent

Results of a new study suggests that computer-aided mammograms would be as effective in detection of breast cancer as a radiologist.

Computer-aided detection, or CAD, has been in circulation for well over a decade now but its accuracy has been questioned by cancer experts the world over

Researchers have discovered an important risk factor for pancreatic cancer that could someday possibly help prevent the disease.

The first-of-its-kind finding was made by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center