Our eating and dietary habits are as varied as we are. One year’s super diet, one season’s super food is destined to become next year’s leftovers.

The American Heart Association’s first policy statement on electronic cigarettes backs the view that the devices are a last resort to help smokers quit.

Smoking increases the risk of breast cancer in older women by almost a fifth, a study has found.

Women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer by 14%, a study has found.

A genetic test to gauge the aggressiveness of prostate cancer may help tens of thousands of men each year decide whether they need to treat their cancer right away or can safely monitor it.

Rihanna kept 2,500 high school students waiting for four and a half hours.

A man who took his ex-girlfriend’s pregnancy test for a joke found out he had testicular cancer after being alerted by users on a website where his story was posted.

DR David Agus doesn’t sit while talking to me on the phone from his California-based office. “I’m walking around with headphones as we talk,” says Agus, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine and author of a new book, The End of Illness.

Tobacco-related deaths have almost tripled in the last decade to almost 50m.

A US judge sentenced two parents to eight years in prison after they pleaded guilty to failing to get medical help for their eight- year-old boy before he died from a treatable form of cancer.

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said yesterday, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year.

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, international health experts said today.

NICOTINE either absorbed by smoking cigarettes or inhaling second-hand smoke may promote tumour growth and the spread of breast cancer, a study has found.

A LONG-AWAITED US federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers but points out it is far from perfect.

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s office announced today he will undergo a “routine” test as part of his treatment for prostate cancer.

MORE than 12 million new cases of cancer will have been diagnosed around the world in 2007, while 20,000 people a day, or 7.6m, will have died from the disease.

Hilary Swank must really trust Oprah Winfrey.

THE US Food and Drug Administration last night cleared the way for production of a new drug which will lead to the creation of 150 new jobs in Cork.

The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, becomes the American Cancer Society’s Mother of the Year this week.

Losing weight reduces the risk of an aggressive form of prostate cancer, according to a study reported today.

The White House today defended Laura Bush’s decision not to disclose she had a skin cancer tumour removed from her right shin last month.

Actress Farah Fawcett has completed cancer treatment and is doing well, her publicist said today.

Mike Slabaugh does not have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins.

DANA Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, through a decade of near-total paralysis, has died of lung cancer.

Actress Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband, has died.

public hospital in the country is to get a 'telemedicine' unit high-tech equipment allowing doctors in one hospital to examine patients in another "as if they were in the room with them".

Disgraced lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has penned her first letter behind bars since she entered a West Virginia prison to serve her sentence for lying about a suspicious stock sale.

A Japanese study has found that a drug combination rejected as a cancer treatment in the United States can add years to the lives of people with early lung cancer.

FREQUENT sexual activity does not increase the risk of developing prostate cancer — and might even reduce the danger — an American study has found.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell underwent surgery for prostate cancer in Washington today.

An experimental vaccine derived from tiny bits of tumour protein and involving a simple pinprick of the patient may prevent cancer from recurring, researchers believe.

GREGORY PECK, the handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award-winner, To Kill a Mockingbird, died yesterday. He was 87.

Gregory Peck, the handsome movie star whose long career included such classics as Roman Holiday, Spellbound and his Academy Award winner To Kill A Mockingbird, has died, a spokesman said tonight. He was 87.

SMOKERS and ex-smokers soon will be able to predict their risk of lung cancer

Intel is set to report on a traumatic quarter in which it announced plans to shed 5,000 jobs.