Researchers think the way to a healthy heart might be through your gums and teeth. ...more

November 29, 2008

The rate of new cancer cases finally may be inching down - cautiously optimistic news but a gain that specialists worry could be derailed by economic turmoil. Death rates from cancer have been dropping slowly for years, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments. ...more

November 25, 2008

The Florida Department of Health says air tests have uncovered one of the same chemicals found in the Raytheon groundwater pollution plume in the indoor air of five apartments and condominiums near the company's defense plant at 1501 72nd St. N. in St. Petersburg. ...more

September 17, 2008

It's one of the more hard-hitting attack ads on television, even by the standards of this bruising political season. But this commercial isn't going after John McCain or Barack Obama. ...more

September 8, 2008

People living near a Raytheon plant in St. Petersburg could be at an increased risk for cancer if they irrigated fruits and vegetables with water from tainted wells, according to an environmental expert. ...more

May 23, 2008

Scientists have taken a key step toward revealing the causes of prostate cancer, finding that a combination of five gene variants dramatically raises the risk of the disease. Added to family history, they accounted for nearly half of all cases in a study of Swedish men. ...more

January 17, 2008

Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men. ...more

December 15, 2007