Newborns who arrive early often face respiratory problems since their lungs may not yet be fully developed. A new drug approved by the FDA joins four others to treat these problems.

Though more women worldwide are planning inductions or cesarean sections to give birth around specific schedules, evidence reveals it's safest to wait until the baby is ready to arrive.

Childhood asthma continues to be a tricky thing to predict. New studies are bringing doubt to the effectiveness of using atopy, a genetic predisposition to allergic reactions, to predict asthma.

Ya either love 'em or you hate 'em. You know those cruciferous vegetables that are among the best things for you on and from the earth. Scientists are getting to know more about why broccoli blocks cancer.

A project to sequence genetic mutations in a particularly aggressive form of childhood leukemia developed a list of common mutations - the first step in developing adequate pharmaceutical targeted therapy.

Children exposed to as little as half an alcoholic drink a day in utero - even if they didn't have fetal alcohol syndrome - appeared to suffer in their achievement test scores.

Allergy relief is going green with a new nasal spray that does not deplete the ozone. The nasal spray was eco-friendly and effective for perennial, or yearlong, allergic rhinitis sufferers.

Nothing very appealing about taking whiffs of truck exhaust. The exposure isn't just unappealing, though. It may be deadly.

For some types of cancer, particularly malignancies of the throat, there is a period of time before the cancer is fully developed where it could go either way. New ways of monitoring these precancerous areas to catch cancer earlier are under development.

Cancer can be thought of as a series of tiny molecular mistakes adding up until the situation is out of control. New research has detailed the specifics of the process occurring in pancreatic cancer.