Peter Rauch was just about to celebrate his 70th birthday when he got the news: brain cancer.

Raised in a restaurant, 55-year-old Jude Crosby knows his way around a kitchen. But he also inherited something else -- a high risk of stroke.

Daniel Lehrman's battle with bladder cancer began nine years ago. He fought and won twice. Then it came back a third time.

Rebecca Tirs spends most days curled up in bed with her pal, Jenny Bee, but this isn't how life has always been for these two. Ten years ago, Tirs was an active 28-year-old then she was in a roll-over car

Two years ago, Ruth McCoy was on top of the world. Everything changed when this young grandmother took some aspirin for a headache -- a total of 10 in two days.

Heart failure made simple steps difficult for Water Pieschel. Medication and a pacemaker keep him going, but he worries about the unexpected. That's why doctors keep an eye on his heart 24/7.

For Victoriahope McAuliffe, the seizures started when she was 4, and haven't stopped.

One Florida cardiologist claims to do what no one else can.

Young adults with a history of low birth weight (less than 5.5 pounds at birth) have an increased risk of hospitalization for respiratory illness, they found.

The big question in aging research is, 'Will caloric restriction in species closely related to humans slow aging?'" said Richard Weindruch, senior author of a paper appearing in the July 10 issue of Science . "This is the first clear

While the remarkable performance of children acquiring one language is impressive, many children acquire more than one language simultaneously," said study author Agnes Melinda Kovacs, a research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy. "As bilingual

Each year in the United States, as many as 7 million hospitalized adults experience delirium, a state of confusion caused by a sudden alteration of mental status. Though delirium is not the same as dementia , people with dementia are

The University of Utah research team, whose work is explored in the July 1 online edition of Neurosurgical Focus , hope their microelectrocorticography, or microECoG, devices also eventually allow people who have lost the power of speech to speak again

On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and others led an H1N1 swine flu "preparedness summit" at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The summit

U.S. researchers analyzed data on 410 women, aged 20 to 54, who had ovarian cancer and were enrolled in the Cancer and Steroid Hormone (CASH) study between 1980 and 1982.

Women with the condition have elevated levels of androgen hormones -- including testosterone -- and often develop ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual cycles and infertility. A key feature of the disease is an increase in the high muscle sympathetic nerve activity.

Although the overall death rate in stroke patients aged 15 to 49 is low, four factors double the risk of death: heavy drinking; being 45 to 49; type 1 diabetes ; or a having an infection beforehand. Moreover, having heart