William J Brown - All Headline News Staff

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gave approval Wednesday to the first medicine targeting a specific racial group

A new research reveals those who eat red or processed meat are potential victims of bowel cancer. But, chances of contracting the disease are less for those who prefer fish

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter

New York (AHN)- In a Reuters Health article, Dr. J. Bruce Redmon and colleagues from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, examined the effects of combining several weight loss strategies in a study involving 59 overweight or obese subjects with type 2 diabetes

Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates is putting his financial muscle behind a campaign to get life-saving cervical cancer vaccines to women in poor countries.

Two rival vaccines targeting the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes the disease, are expected to be launched in the next year or two by Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline Plc

A study published in the journal Health Affairs 45 million people in the U.S. go without health insurance, but 16 million people pay for limited coverage that puts them in about the same boat financially and medically as those with no insurance at all.

The report also says these "underinsured" individuals are nearly as likely to be the target of medical bill collectors and to forego needed medical care, the found