Smoking is associated with lung cancer in the minds of many, yet appears to also be the number one risk factor for bladder cancer as well.

Chemotherapy, as well as other pharmaceuticals, are key components of cancer treatment. But sometimes the drugs stop working as the cancer becomes immune to the drug. Research is now focusing on reversing that drug resistance.

Anxiety disorders are not always linked to traumatic experiences. The source of these disorders is often times a minor negative event, but the reason a disorder develops in some remains a mystery.

The joke is that experienced parents don't clean off a pacifier after it falls on the floor. A few extra germs just build the immune system, right? Well, they may be on to something.

For patients with allergies to metals such as nickel, metal stents to open arteries and improve blood flow to the heart had proved troubling for cardiologists treating their coronary artery disease.

Any parent knows that children are fearless - they will run or climb anywhere without noting dangers around them. But fortunately, accidents are killing fewer kids than ever in the U.S.

It's no secret that alcohol can impair a person's judgment. But could it simultaneously enhance creativity enough to solve problems? Perhaps Ernest Hemingway was on to something.

Sweet Caroline. Dock of the Bay. Soul Man. Suspicious Minds. Angel of Harlem. Let's Stay Together. Mustang Sally. You know the singers, but do you know who played those soulful horns?

Cancer cells are extremely versatile and adaptable. They find ways to wiggle out of any attempts to restrain them. Researchers are working with the very mechanism that cancer uses to avoid death to develop a potentially powerful therapy for lymphoma.