Breast cancer affects one out of every eight American women. Most cases of breast cancer are among women over the age of 50. According to the National Cancer Institute, the median age for women diagnosed with breast cancer is 61.

Scientists say they have overcome a major hurdle to treating a host of neurodegenerative diseases with human embryonic stem cells: their propensity to form tumors.

In an economy marked by rapid upward advancement, plastic surgery has become the fourth most popular way to spend discretionary income in China in just a decade. Ma Xiaowei, China's vice health minister says that only houses, cars and travel rank higher.

Every year, four million baby teeth and 1.4 million wisdom teeth are pulled out of our collective mouth.  Until recently, the only entity really interested in all those teeth was the tooth fairy. But all that changed in the year 2000, with the discovery that dental pulp contains adult stem cells.

Botox may smooth your wrinkles, but it can dull your ability to understand the emotions of others, a new study suggests.

A new study has found that women who choose among different breast cancer treatment options make smarter choices when getting the information and making decisions in small doses rather than all at once, as is customary.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- More than 1.5 million Americans went under the knife to improve their appearance last year. That number is up from the past two years and some plastic surgeons say this year is looking even better.

Four out of five obesity surgery patients are women. That's one of the less trumpeted figures in the first ever UK report by the National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR).

Calcium supplements appear to slightly raise the risk of heart attack, a new analysis suggests. But the data, from postmenopausal women who took supplements over seven years, are far from conclusive.

Washington:  With spiraling health care costs a cause of concern in America, US President Barack Obama today pushed for an affordable health care arguing that he would not like his countrymen to travel to countries like India and Mexico for cheaper treatment.