Nicolas Sarkozy has unveiled a four -year plan to fight cancer. The former President Jacques Chirac had already launched one in 2003. Will this plan be more efficient and better implemented?
The ongoing military offensive against the Taliban in Pakistan is widely discussed by Internet users. Also in this edition, many websites are trying to raise awareness about breast cancer.
A 14-year-old British girl died on Monday shortly after receiving a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline. A link between the death and the drug has not yet been established, health officials said on Monday.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of only two female judges currently serving on the US Supreme Court, was taken to hospital after feeling ill at the court on Thursday. The 76-year-old justice is battling pancreatic cancer.
Leading Iraqi Shiite cleric Abdel Aziz al-Hakim has died of lung cancer at a hospital in the Iranian capital of Tehran. His death comes just two days after the foundation of the Iraqi National Alliance, a broad Shiite coalition he helped set up.
Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who is credited with restoring democracy in her country in 1986, died on Saturday after battling colon cancer for 16 months. A 10-day period of national mourning has been announced.
Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino died on Saturday after battling colon cancer for 16 months, her family said. Aquino led mass demonstrations to restore democracy and was eventually elected president, serving from 1986 to 1992.
The World Health Organisation has reclassified sunbeds, used mainly by people in northern Europe and the US for tanning purposes, to the highest cancer risk category, along with cigarettes and asbestos.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and may not live more than five years, a South Korean news channel has reported. Kim's health is the subject of attention since there has been no announcement about who would succeed him.
US actress Farrah Fawcett has died in a Los Angeles hospital, aged 62, after a three-year battle with cancer. Fawcett rose to fame in the 1970s, starring in the popular TV series, "Charlie's Angels".
