Dengue fever might sound like a foreign concern for most Americans, but residents of Florida are learning that the tropical disease is not as far-removed as they might have thought.

From a surgeon’s point of view, robotic surgery is sort of like a video game. The surgeon sits at a console and controls the robot’s arms and hands. As with all types of surgery, a great deal of training is required. A new review compared robotic and open surgery for treating bladder cancer.

Being overweight and pregnant has previously been shown to increase risks during delivery — but there may be more to the story than just a woman's weight that influences her risks.

The likelihood that individuals experience certain medical conditions often depends on their risk factors for that condition. Knowing the risk factors for brain bleeds can help people reduce their chances of having one.

Kids might rather be running around outside instead of preparing for that next test, but both play and study can help the brain. That is, physical fitness and quizzing could help the child learn better in the long run.

Having a hard time reading can hinder a whole range of everyday activities. People with dyslexia, a reading disorder, often hunt for tools to help them correctly decipher printed words.

Is more radiation therapy better? A group of UK researchers hoped to answer that question with recently published research.

Many people take measures to avoid surgery. Depending on the disease, however, surgery may be a treatment option that works better sooner rather than later. A recent study provided evidence on the benefits of pursuing surgery early for one of the most common diseases in the United States.

Colorectal cancer strikes down thousands of Americans every year. Fortunately, there’s a way to prevent this disease and these deaths.

From a scientific standpoint, the effectiveness of cancer screenings are measured in the number of deaths prevented. Researchers recently looked at the impact one type of colorectal cancer screening had on saving lives.