Five years ago today, the country music world lost a celebrated songwriter and unsung hero of the Outlaw movement.

A former mayor of Ankeny has died. The city confirmed Merle Johnson passed away on Monday. Johnson served as the city's Mayor from 1998 to 2005. Ankeny Mayor Bobbi Bentz says Johnson cared deeply bout ...

People with certain bacteria and fungi in their mouths may face a dramatically higher risk of pancreatic cancer — more than three times greater — according to new research from NYU Langone Health and ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that the White House says will use artificial intelligence to transform the way scientists fight childhood cancer. However, the move comes amid ...

The five-year survival rate has jumped up from around 75% to over 90%. Since the start of Breast Cancer Awareness initiatives in 1985, over 517,000 lives have been saved from better treatment and ...

When Trish Michelle first told her doctor about a lump in her breast at age 37, his response was that it “didn’t exist,” she tells SELF. In his view, there was little reason to be suspicious: Her ...

In the last decade, more than a dozen types of cancer have risen among people under 50. Scientists don’t have all of the answers, but research is starting to offer clues. By Nina Agrawal Ten years ago ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

My grandparents were farmers, and I grew up in a conservative Christian household. We went to church three times a week, and where I went to college, we had chapel every day. Most of my career, I ...

Jessica Gilbert is on a mission to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. An Ohio mom is opening up about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer after initially thinking she had a sinus infection. In January ...

Three hours inland from Chennai, India, traffic crawls on a half-finished road past rice fields and cow crossings until it reaches a newer complex of neat white buildings. Among them is the cancer ...

A brave 14-year-old girl who inspired millions by sharing her near-lifelong battle with cancer has died, her heartbroken family announced on her social media pages. Zuza Beine, who gained millions of ...