The U.S. government uncovered that young adults in college struggle with drinking problems more than people of the same age not attending school.

Some arthritis patients need surgery to repair severely damaged knees. You might think such surgery would bring relief only to the affected knee joints. But knee replacement surgery may offer even more benefits.

When pregnant women are at risk for having a premature birth, prenatal steroids appear to help. The steroids seem to improve survival rate and limit brain injury in infants born as early as 23 weeks of pregnancy.

Ovarian cancer can live within a woman's body for some time before showing itself. And sometimes its presence is never really felt. That's why diagnosing the disease is so tricky. Now, researchers have zeroed in on a way to detect ovarian cancer that has returned.

Technology and procedures to treat unruptured brain aneurysms, which can lead to hemorrhagic stroke caused by cranial bleeding, have improved significantly in the last decade.

Before getting pregnant, women should make sure that they are in good health. An unhealthy mother is more likely to have an unhealthy baby. This may be especially true for women with diabetes.

A blood test to identify depression is on the horizon, and could represent a major breakthrough in the diagnosis of depressive disorder.

The risk of developing breast cancer increases as a woman ages. The risk of breast cancer returning also increases with age. And increasing age also increases the risk of dying from breast cancer.

Cancer biology overlaps frequently, and some drugs designed for a specific mutation may have multiple uses, as one study shows.

Some patients may better respond to clot busting drugs immediately after the onset of stroke symptoms. The challenge is figuring out which patients are most likely to benefit.