Borderline high blood pressure puts individuals at an elevated stroke risk even though patients don't formally have hypertension. Common blood pressure drugs may significantly reduce that risk.

Obesity has been a major topic at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Excess weight has been shown to be an aggravating factor on a number of fronts. Now, obesity is known to complicate the treatment of HER2-postive breast cancer.

Getting your heart into better shape isn't just about losing weight. Improving your fitness level even without weight loss reduces your risk of dying.

When an individual begins developing the early signs of Alzheimer's disease, one of the earliest symptoms is the loss of smell. Scientists have found a way to reverse this symptom in a lab.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men next to skin cancer. Interestingly, though, not all men are treated for this disease immediately after diagnosis. And a panel advises this is as it should be.

As we get older, many parts of our body continue to grow and develop. Scientists thought the lungs were fully developed early in childhood but it turns out the lungs continue to grow into adulthood.

Even though type 1 and type 2 diabetes are different conditions, they can look similar in young Asian Americans. These similarities can make it hard for some doctors to diagnose this population.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are taking a second look at blood thinning drug Pradaxa ( dabigatran etexilate mesylate ) after reports of serious, potentially fatal, bleeding.

What level of awareness does a person have when in a vegetative state? Can a person in a coma ever wake up?

It's when cancer spreads that patients are in the greatest danger. Thinking out of the box, scientists have narrowed their sights on a protein that could help nip metastasis in the bud.