Shannon Tavarez was performing as the young Nala in The Lion King on Broadway when her legs mysteriously started to hurt. The pain made walking – not to mention dancing – difficult. In April came the devastating diagnosis: At age 11, she had an acute form of leukemia. The news “really hit me hard,” says […]

A new study said that a popular class of antihypertension drugs—including those made by Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Merck & Co. and Novartis AG—is associated with a modestly increased risk of cancer. The researchers cautioned that the limited data make it impossible to calculate the exact cancer risk for each individual drug in the class, but […]

Breast cancer: aspirin could cut risks. A long running study of over 4,000 nurses indicates that breast cancer survivors that took aspirin were half as likely to die of the disease or have their tumors spread, compared to survivors that did not take aspirin.