Health
Breast cancer chemo raises heart risks
New research shows the adage "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" doesn't apply in treating breast cancer.
Diabetes 101: Understanding the disease
Editor's note: Ann Curley is the assignment manager for the CNN Medical News unit. She has been a type I diabetic for 40 years. Here she explains the basics to understanding diabetes.
Life with diabetes: Outliving the prognosis
Editor's note: Ann Curley is the assignment manager for the CNN Medical News unit. She has been a type I diabetic for 40 years. This is her story of life with diabetes.
Diabetes and heart disease: A fatal link
Editor's note: Ann Curley is the assignment manager for the CNN Medical News unit and a type I diabetic.
Breast cancer walker finds her inner superhero
For the last few years I've thought I'd like to walk in the Breast Cancer 3-Day. The idea of doing something incredible with more than 2,500 other women for such a great cause seemed like the perfec
Child was treated at hospital days before staph death
Just days before his death, the Brooklyn, New York, middle-school student who died from an antibiotic-resistant staph infection had visited a hospital with skin lesions and was treated with allergy
Pediatricians urge early autism screening
From the time her daughter was very young, Briana Vartanian knew something was wrong.
Family to sue for $25 million over boy's staph death
The family of a Brooklyn boy who died this month from an antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus infection plans to file a $25 million lawsuit against the city of New York, the family's attorney said Tu
Study: Blood-thinning drug shows promise, pitfalls
A new blood thinner proved better than Plavix, one of the world's top-selling drugs, at preventing heart problems after procedures to open clogged arteries, doctors reported Sunday. But the new drug
Enlarged heart chief cause of athletes' sudden death
An enlarged heart is the biggest cause of sudden death among young athletes, deaths that could be prevented with more and better screening, experts said after the weekend death of a marathon runner.
Study: Milk allergy can take years longer to outgrow
When Julianne Jaffe Cohen was looking at colleges for her son Jeremy, the first question she asked was not about the academics. Instead, she wanted to know whether there was a hospital nearby.
CDC: Cold-virus variant has killed 10
A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Coronary artery disease killing more women under 45
For decades, heart disease death rates have been falling. But a new study shows a troubling turn -- more women under 45 are dying of heart disease due to clogged arteries, and the death rate for men
FDA wants warnings for kids on flu drugs
Government health regulators recommended adding label precautions about neurological problems seen in children who have taken flu drugs made by Roche and GlaxoSmithKline. The Food and Drug Administr
More than 1 million reported chlamydia cases set STD record
More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year -- the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Officials: No one caught TB on flights with Speaker
Tests of hundreds of airline passengers show that no one caught tuberculosis while flying earlier this year with an infected man who caused an international health scare when he flew to Europe for h
My son's food allergies: danger every day
"At least it's not peanuts."
Fauci: Despite 'AIDS fatigue,' Americans should care
Dr. Anthony Fauci has seen HIV and AIDS evolve from a mystery disease of the 1980s to an international health catastrophe to a disease that many consider a chronic but manageable condition.
