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The actor Vivek Oberoi has struggled not only in his professional life but also in his personal life. He lost his childhood love to cancer when he was only 18. He wrote on Twitter,” When I was just 18, I lost my first love. My childhood sweetheart since the ...

-Oops is right. What on Earth happened to Taylor Swift’s face? -We sure hope Levi saved some of that Playgirl cash — the teen dad has been ordered to fork over $18,000 in back child support to ex-girlfriend Bristol Palin. Bristol has been raising the former couple’s one-year-old son, Tripp….. -Kanye’s beard ...

-- On March 9, Saddle Creek will release "Discovering America", a new stand-alone single from Omaha lifers Cursive. All profits from its sales will go to the American Indian College Fund. -- The ...

A new study claims to have discovered a link between some of America’s favorite soft drinks and one of the world’s deadliest forms of cancer. People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers ...

People who drink at least two sugary sodas a week have an increased risk of developing cancer of the pancreas, and researchers suspect the culprit is sugar, a study published Monday shows. Analyses of data collected on 60,524 Singapore Chinese adults showed that people who drank two ...

Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): A new study by American researchers has shown that changes in body fluid odours can be used to identify presence of lung cancer tumours. The research by scientists at the Monell Center and collaborators may help in methods to identify potential diagnostic biomarkers for lung cancer in ...

Confessions from a Reality Show Drama Queen: One of The Real World: DC housemates has admitted to faking cancer to get attention from a former boyfriend. Erika Lauren Wasilewski, a 22-year-old Illinois native and Columbia College graduate, pretended to be in a deadly battle against skin cancer to win ...

R&B singing legend Teddy Pendergrass has died. The velvet-voiced ’70s crooner — who rose to the top of the charts with panty-dropper like “Somebody Loves You Back,” “Love TKO,” and “Turn Off The Lights” — lost his battle against colon cancer at a surburban Philadelphia hospital on Wednesday. He was ...

More evidence that tumours, like healthy organs, grow from stem cellsTHE notion that tumours are chaotic masses of anarchic cells has been falling by the wayside recently. Many researchers now think, by contrast, that cancers actually resemble normal, well-regulated organs in several important ways. One of these is that they ...

Spurred by reports of a possible link between cell phone radiation and cancer, a Maine legislator is seeking warning labels on cell phones while San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is pushing a city law to force retailers to display a phone's absorption rate level in print at least as big ...

Teresa Heinz-Kerry is the latest of prominent figure to go public with her cancer battle. The wife of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is urging young women to continue their annual mammograms, despite the recent controversy over the age at which women should begin breast cancer screenings. Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...

Hey ‘Crunchers: I mentioned this item in Saturday’s Weekend Crunch Crumbs, but for those who may have missed it, that damn cancer has taken another beloved figure of yesteryear. Sesame Street actress Alaina Reed Hall has died after a lengthy battle against breast cancer. Hall passed away in Los Angeles ...

Lisa Niemi, the widow of actor Patrick Swayze, has established a cancer research fund in the late star’s name. The Ghost star underwent treatment for pancreatic cancer at Stanford University before losing his battle against the disease in September. Lisa wants to show her thanks to the medical professionals who worked tirelessly ...

London: In a study conducted by doctors of Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital has revealed, that a progesterone injection worth Rs 100 can help reduce death rate amongst the breast cancer patients by 30 per cent. Dr Indraneel Mittra of department of surgical oncology said, “With this treatment there was a clear ...

In a novel study, researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer. They say that protein, alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), may serve as a viable, well-tolerated agent for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. “Hormones in pregnancy, such as estrogen, all induce ...

In a revolutionary study, researchers have discovered what makes skin cancer grow – a finding that could lead to new ways to prevent the disease from spreading. Although skin cancer is easily treated when caught early, it usually becomes fatal if it spreads to other parts of the body. Dr Lesley Walker, ...

Breast cancer is on the rise in India due to changing lifestyles. Forty-year-old Dayanand Yadav is the only male patient at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences” (AIIMS) breast cancer clinic. Yadav had never imagined he could suffer from what is usually seen to be a woman’’s disease. And, coming to terms ...

Billionaire Paul Allen , who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs reported on Monday. Allen , 56, one of the wealthiest men in the world, has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, CNET News and other ...

Scientists from Karolinska Institutet have suggested a new way of fighting colon cancer. They focussed their study on a group of signal proteins called EphB receptors. These proteins stimulate the division of stem cells in the intestine and can contribute to the formation of adenoma (polyps), which are known to carry a ...

Suzanne Somers is taking flack from Desperate Housewives star Kathryn Joosten, who is challenging the actress’ controversial support of alternative therapies. Suzanne, a cancer survivor, credits holistic medicine with saving her life. She is against the use of chemotherapy to fight cancer. Joosten, on the other hand, was diagnosed with ...