Health
Understanding the cholesterol numbers game
Lets face it: All the information around cholesterol makes it something of a confusing topic. Not only do we make our own cholesterol, but we also must have it to produce other important body assets
Study: Waiting OK for older prostate cancer patients
Older men with early stage prostate cancer are not taking a big risk if they keep an eye on the disease instead of treating it right away, suggests the largest study to look at this issue since PSA
FEMA to move people out of trailers with toxic threat
Authorities say they will step up efforts to move hurricane victims out of more than 35,000 trailers now that tests indicate possibly high levels of formaldehyde contamination.
CDC: Flu vaccine matches 40 percent of season's viruses
The flu season is getting worse, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the flu vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs.
Heart attack at 38 the beginning, not the end
Brian Connell felt the first pains of a heart attack while shoveling snow a year ago. But he was only 38, so he shrugged it off.
'Coaches' help new patients through cancer's scary world
The advice made her head spin: Have the lump removed. No, let them take the whole breast. Chemo? Radiation? Everyone seemed to have an opinion.
Cancer deaths up in 2005; rate still falling
U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued Wednesday.
Spike in middle-aged women's strokes linked to belly fat
Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors attribute to the obesity epidemic.
The ugly truth about life with a 'superbug'
Moderate fitness cuts women's stroke risk too
Being merely moderately fit -- walking briskly half an hour a day -- can lower the risk of having a stroke, according to a new study whose findings apply to women as well as men.
Bird flu kills woman in Vietnam
Bird flu killed a school teacher from northern Vietnam in the country's 51st death from the disease, and health officials fretted Tuesday that the virus would spread further. The woman, 23, was infe
Preeclampsia can be life-threatening for moms-to-be
At its worst, Melissa Miller's blood pressure measured 153 over 95, dangerously high for anyone, never mind a woman who is 36 weeks pregnant.
Study questions antibiotics use in dementia patients
A woman dying of Alzheimer's has a fever. Should she be given antibiotics?
Medical mystery solved in slaughterhouse
A mysterious nerve disorder that hit some slaughterhouse employees with debilitating symptoms apparently was caused by inhaling a fine mist of pig brain tissue.
Despite available drug, sickle cell suffering continues
The news is grim: Ten years after government approval of the first sickle cell treatment, only a tiny fraction of patients use the drug -- despite new research showing the disease is far more painfu
5 good reasons for going on hormones
Empowered Patient, a regular feature from CNN Medical News correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, helps put you in the driver's seat when it comes to health care. Dr. Bernadine Healy can't even count the nu
Vaccine case draws new attention to autism debate
On April 2, CNN will report on the global impact, latest science and controversies related to autism for the first "World Autism Day." Watch for coverage on CNN.com and CNN TV.
Vaccine settlement complex, may not be first
On April 2, CNN will report on the global impact, latest science and controversies related to autism for the first "World Autism Day." Watch for coverage on CNN.com and CNN TV. For those c
