Cancer is a life-threatening disease snatching thousands of lives each new day. For many years now, researchers have studying to the disease, its different forms and how to stop this deadly disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that, worldwide, nearly 1 in 6 deaths are down to cancer. It’s shocking that there are 100 types of cancer and we hardly know few of them. Scroll down the page to know the types of cancer risk increasing day by day.

Swine flu is a kind of influenza in pigs that gets transmitted into humans with deadly effects. It generally increases during the winter season.

Do you frequently work in night shifts? Lack of proper sleep and night-time wakefulness can cause damage to the structure of the human DNA and lead to many diseases, including cancer and diabetes, as well as cardiovascular, neurological and pulmonary diseases, warns a study.

Brussels, Sep 8 (IANS/AKI) Over 45 countries on Friday vowed to globally eradicate by 2030 the highly contagious Peste des petits ruminants disease which kills of millions of sheep and goats each year in Africa and Asia, the UN, EU and World Organisation for Animal Health said in a joint statement.

Australian scientists are developing a simple blood test that quickly and easily detects whether a person is at risk of a secondary heart attack.

Even low levels of exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment like arsenic, lead, copper and cadmium pose a significant risk to cardiovascular health, finds a study, led by one of an Indian-origin.

Older adults who experience psychological distress such as depression and anxiety may have an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), a new study suggests.

Consumption of low carbohydrate diets can be unsafe as it may increase the risk of premature death, a new study has found.

Gestational anaemia -- lack of blood -- may be a marker for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke later, a study has found.

Pregnant women with heart disease should give birth at no later than 40 weeks gestation, beyond that harm can be caused to the mother, new guidelines by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recommends.