Smoking is draining a heavy share of the world economy annually and burning it to the smoke. The toll has now crossed the critical level of $ 1 trillion a year and with it, the death rate caused by smoking is likely to jump to a new sky-height figure of 8 million a year.
Watching television for long periods of time has been linked to developing deadly illnesses such as cancer and heart disease, according to a new study.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given their sign of approval on Tuesday, Oct. 27, to Amgen's Imlygic (talimogene laherparepvec), a cancer immunotherapy against the dreaded melanoma lesions found in the skin and lymph nodes.
A study has shown that breast cancer patients have a higher possibility of gaining weight after chemotherapy, increasing their risk of cancer recurrence and getting other chronic disorders like obesity, insulin resistance and metabolism problems.