'Cancer' of Italian Mafia slated
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi calls for the "cancer" of Mafia crime to be cut out of Italian life, while visiting Naples.
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A court mulls a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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Milano, 15 ott. (Adnkronos Salute) - Creare un Osservatorio sull&#39;informazione in oncologia per controllare le notizie sul cancro diffuse dai media e difendere i malati, &#39;&#39;anello debole della catena&#39;&#39;, da illusioni e false speranze.
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ROME - Italy's anti-Mafia investigators have long battled money laundering. Now they're cracking down on jailed mobsters' dirty laundry.
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Illegal immigrants are vulnerable and at risk from those offering help Italian police say they have broken up a gang suspected of kidnapping illegal immigrants and holding them for ransom.Comment
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Anti-Mafia judges have ordered the arrest of 52 people suspected of having links to extortion and money-laundering rackets in a southern region of Italy.
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Emerging rival mafia clans are locked in a murderous power struggle for control of the drugs market.
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An Italian town&#39;s mayor hopes to shame men  into not using prostitutes by photographing cars that pick them  up and publishing the details in local newspapers.
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NEW YORK  - People who have had all or part  of their stomach removed appear to have an increased risk of  later developing cancer of the larynx, doctors in Italy report.
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A possible sighting in Italy of fugitive Boston Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, an inspiration for the Oscar-winning film "The Departed," is recharging the hunt for one of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted."
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PALERMO, Sicily  - A large anti-Mafia operation involving arrests in Italy and the United States was under way on Thursday, judicial sources in Sicily said.
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Pictures of a corpse and mouth cancers will be displayed on cigarette packets in India from June in a bid to shock people into stopping smoking, health officials said on Tuesday.
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VENICE, Italy - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays realistic characters including many who could not be construed as stereotypes.    De Niro's defense Friday came after the Order Sons of Italy in America, a fraternal organization of Americans of Italian heritage, wrote a letter to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship...
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Fans of &quot;The Sopranos&quot; will have to wait a bit longer for the mob drama&#039;s final chapter.
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A dead Sicilian Mafia boss who once helped lead a drug ring out of New York pizza parlours may get the last laugh back home in Italy.
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Usare il cellulare per oltre dieci anni aumenta il rischio di sviluppare tumori benigni al nervo acustico. E&#39; quanto emerge da una ricerca choc condotta dallâIstituto svedese di medicina ambientale. &quot;Quando
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Luciano Pavarotti said he will remain optimistic until his death that he can overcome pancreatic cancer, in an interview with an Italian newspaper published Tuesday. The interview published in Corriere della Sera quoted Pavarotti as saying that the cancer was punishment for his good fortune.