'Cancer hug' liability admitted
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The Ministry of Defence is to compensate a woman who says she developed cancer from hugging her dockyard worker father.
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A practitioner of alternative medicine who allegedly discouraged a woman with breast cancer from getting chemotherapy has been charged in her death.
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PUNE: Healthcare establishments (HCEs) or doctors denying treatment to HIV/AIDS patients, beware, for the proposed anti-discrimination law that is being readied, if passed, will hold the guilty liable for prosecution.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The family of a woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS drug has filed a negligence lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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A firm providing phone and TV services to hospital patients has been accused of pressurising vulnerable people.
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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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At issue is whether makers of medical equipment approved by the federal government may be sued under state law by patients injured by those devices.
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Doctors treating cancer patients should try harder to help them deal with the emotional toll the disease exacts, an expert panel said on Tuesday.
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A federal class-action lawsuit filed in Boston yesterday on behalf of Massachusetts smokers demands that Philip Morris USA Inc. pay for computerized chest scans for its customers in an effort to detect early-stage lung cancer.
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Cancer patients are facing unfair dismissal and discrimination at work, a BBC investigation has revealed.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6 -- A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.
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Doctors treating cancer patients  should try harder to help them deal with the emotional toll the  disease exacts, an expert panel said on Tuesday.
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Among the many issues raised by the Supreme Court&#39;s recent disclosure that Chief Justice William Rehnquist has cancer is how much information the court owes the public about the chief justice&#39;s health.
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CHICAGO Oct 30, 2004 - A medical school and a group of about 50 breast cancer patients have agreed to settle a lawsuit over a canceled experimental vaccine program that some patients claimed had kept them alive.
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CHICAGO A North Chicago medical school and about 50 breast cancer patients agreed to settle a lawsuit. It arose after the school canceled an experimental vaccine program that some patients claimed kept them alive.
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DISTANT relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers say. Scientists looked at the family tree of about 32,000 patients