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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to expand a popular health program to provide coverage for about 11 million children and raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products to pay for it.

Adolescents whose parents smoke are more likely to pick up the habit themselves, new research confirms.

Thousands of cancer patients could have their lives prolonged after a deal was struck to provide an expensive drug previously denied to them on the NHS.

The World Health Organisation says Ireland should increase its efforts to control what is being described as 'the smoking epidemic'. An official from the WHO says more effective tobacco control policies are ...

Tadpoles could hold the key to developing effective skin cancer drugs according to researchers at the University of East Anglia.

The latest Productivity Commission Report on Government Services shows that the ACT has high rates of breast cancer and repeat child abuse but also high child immunisation rates and school participation.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Health advocates and North Carolina lawmakers revived their push Thursday to expand state smoking bans to restaurants, public places and indoor work sites, arguing the health cons...

Recent studies suggest that human breast cancer risk is increased by outside exposure to the hormone progestin, such as during hormone replacement therapy.

Programs that permit the donation of good, unused drugs to the needy owe their existence to the lobbying by families of patients. It all began 10 years ago with Garry Beltz, who owns a ceiling tile cleaning business near Akron, Ohio. After his wife, Karon, died of breast cancer in 1999, he was determined that the last evidence of her disease--$6,700 worth of prescription drugs--be put to good use helping others in need. "I took the medicine back to the hospital to ask if they would give it to someone at the cancer center," Beltz says. "They said it was against the law."Frustrated, Beltz began lobbying his state representatives to change the regulations. A few years later, in 2002, his efforts paid off when the Ohio General Assembly passed "Karon's Law," which became the first law in the U.S. to allow donations of unused medications to a repository. Since then, Beltz has been integral to the adoption of similar legislation in numerous other states. &q

British scientists say a compound that blocked the development of the distinctive markings of tadpoles in experiments could help to prevent melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.