ScienceDaily (June 13, 2009) -- Research has shown for the first time how cancers that spread to the brain establish themselves and begin to grow.

Early-onset Alzheimer's is an uncommon form of dementia that strikes people younger than age 65.Glenn E. Smith, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., answers questions about this condition.

Obama cuts federal funding for abstinence-only education and Bristol Palin emerges as its "do as I say" champion. Caroline Johnston Polisi picks apart the tangle of federal policy and real-life national sit-com.

"Food, Inc.," an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy. You'll shudder, shake and just

Despite spending more money than any other country on health care, the United States does not lead the world in life expectancy, a long-known fact that some experts say could raise more questions in the health-care reform debate.

Many breast cancer patients are loading up on antioxidants, a study shows, even though there is limited research on the effect such dietary supplements have on cancer treatments.

BETHESDA, Md. - Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do.

This is what being uninsured and not having health care for a year and a half when you're diabetic and have high blood pressure looks like. This is what our American health care system looks like. It is as broken as my kidneys.

Nutrition is an important element of pregnancy. Here you'll find helpful tips to ensure you understand all you need to when it comes to nutrition and your pregnancy-before, during, and after.

Researchers have identified a gene that is overexpressed in up to 20 percent of breast cancers and that could be blocked in the lab by a currently available blood pressure drug, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer