New research suggests that fat cell inflammation in breast tissue could put women with a healthy BMI at heightened risk for breast cancer.

Study finds that aggressive breast cancer cells grow faster in obese tissue, suggesting that weight loss may be an effective cancer-fighting tool.

Music therapy after spine surgery may help to reduce patients' pain more than drugs alone.

The FDA has approved ocrelizumab, commercially known as Ocrevus, to treat the most rare and severe form of multiple sclerosis. The drug will be available to the public in two weeks.

A man who had been paralyzed from the shoulders down for the past eight years was able to use his arm to feed himself thanks to a mind-controlled device that reconnected the lost signals between his brain and arm muscles.

A new study from Tel Aviv University in Israel has discovered a natural process that is able to destroy "incurable" cancer cells without destroying healthy cells.

Researchers in England have succeeded in growing human blood in a lab setting, using stem cells. However, the method is not yet perfected, and does not replace the need for traditional blood donations.

Scientists in France have identified a protein marker to set HIV-infected reservoir cells apart from healthy cells, which would make it easier to completely eliminate the virus from the body.

A new experimental gene therapy drug has cured a third of seriously ill lymphoma patients involved in a clinical trial. However, the same drug may also have killed two volunteers. More research is needed.

A new study has identified a "clue" in the blood that could identify the presence of cancer, and also tell doctors where in the body the tumor is located.

New research suggests that screening women at the highest risk for ovarian cancer for a protein biomarker called CA125 may help doctors find tumors earlier.

Can you have tired blood? New study has figured out the key to keeping blood young, a finding that could prevent disease in elderly individuals.