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Health department says private clinics should remove faulty PIP implants for anxious women on same basis as NHS agreement.

Heavy metal guitarist diagnosed with lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the immune system.

After undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has received the all-clear.

Thousands more women may be at risk of sub-standard silicone breast implants after it was revealed that French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) were selling implants under a different name.

The French company at the centre of the breast implant scandal also made fake testicles, it has been claimed by former staff.

Kerry McGregor, a former X Factor contestant, has died aged 37 after a battle with bladder cancer.

The Chief Prosecutor in Hosni Mubarak's trial has reiterated accusations the fallen dictator ordered the killing of protesters.

Antonio Vazquez Alba has predicted that Syria will be invaded this year, but refused to give any other details.

Poly Implant Prosthese defective breasts impanted by at least 50 British clinics but government says no urgency for removal.

"We're looking at June or July for our date,” the singer said.

Poly Implant Prosthese used clinically untested chemicals in faulty breast implants at centre of global health scare affecting hundreds of thousands of women.

Actress Megan Fox and TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson made the two biggest mental health related gaffes of the year, a charity claims.

Chief of French breast implant company admits product had not received formal approval.

Cristina Kirchner, third South American head of state with cancer, to undergo throat surgery.

Taking Multivitamin tablets do not improve health conditions, a new research report says.

Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), the company at the root of a recent and still ongoing global health scare, apparently has a lookout notice, issued by Interpol, to his name.

Defective implants in up to 30,000 French women will be removed after health fears raised.

A bronze statue of Steve Jobs, believed to be the world's first, has been unveiled at a Hungarian software company that the Apple co-founder helped financially.

Scientists have discovered that the commonest type of ovarian cancer evolves at a fast enough rate to “dodge” standard treatment.

French health bosses warn women to remove defective breast implants made from industrial silicone.

A Texas jury has awarded a record $150 billion in damages to the parents of a boy who was allegedly sexually assaulted and set on fire.

Venezuelan beauty queen dies of breast cancer at the age of 28.

The world has lost one of its greatest orators, writers, debaters and contrarians with the death of Christopher Hitchens, aged 62.

A new study links smoking with a non-melanoma skin cancer in women.

The 59-year-old woman who had bilateral mastectomy and placement of breast prostheses revealed that her “body swallowed one of the implants” during a Pilate stretching exercise.

According to the health experts, alcohol consumption is linked to about 13,000 new cases of cancer in each year.

Roman Catholic nuns are paying a heavy price for their chastity and their celibate life put them in the high risk group for different types of cancer, the study has warned.

Lifestyle rather than genetic or any other physiological factors is a major cancer causing factor, according to a new study.

A leading Japanese Food manufacture says radioactive cesium has been detected in its baby formula and has recalled the products.

E! News presenter Giuliana Rancic has revealed that she intends to undergo a double mastectomy and immediate reconstruction after being diagnosed with breast cancer in October.