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A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said.

Canada's atomic energy company said Friday that it is scrapping a nuclear reactor project designed to produce medical isotopes used in vital body scans for many illnesses.

Health regulators warned again  that certain drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.

Just 5 percent of U.S. cancer survivors are meeting experts' recommendations on diet, physical activity and cigarette smoking, a new survey shows.

The death toll rose to 43 from the hand, foot and mouth disease virus that has sickened tens of thousands of children across China, a report said Friday.

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A growing number of women with early stage *** cancer seem to be choosing to have the whole *** removed instead of just the cancerous lump, doctors are reporting.

Children who survive cancer face a much greater risk of heart problems later in life than their brothers and sisters who did not have cancer, new research shows.

A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments.