Four months without a heart

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She lived for months without a heart. D'Zhana (dZON-ah) is only 15 years old, but she feels lucky to be alive. Last summer, D'Zhana was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, which is a dangerously enlarged heart. In the U.S., about 30,000 children have a... Full story

Live past 100

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Want to live to 100? Here are the secrets you need to know. The fountain of youth may be more attainable than you think. The average American lives 77.8 years, but the number of people living past 100 is growing. What is the secret to being a... Full story

Muscular dystrophy breakthroughs

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A college graduate makes his mark, not only on stage, but in the medical world.  Muscular dystrophy: One in every three-thousand boys is diagnosed with the most common form of the muscle-wasting disease. It claims most patients by their... Full story

Fake patients: Real training

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Medical schools are going high-tech by using mechanical patients. The non-human patients are preparing future doctors to save lives. Heart murmurs, heart attacks, collapsed lung are some of the scenarios medical students may face when they enter... Full story

Cooking brain tumors

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With a laser, a doctor cooked a cancerous brain tumor in one man, and now the patient is cancer free.  Cancerous brain tumors are the most difficult to treat. They spread fast and kill more than 13,000 people every year. Without surgery,... Full story

Are off-label drugs for you?

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A prescription means the stamp of approval from your doctor, but it may not mean the government’s approval. You might need to be on the alert for off-label drugs. It’s more common than you might think. More than 20 percent of... Full story

Monitoring hearts from far away

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From far away, a new device keeps an eye on the heart.   The heart beats about 100,000 times a day. If it beats a lot more than that – or a lot less – you could be suffering from a condition called atrial fibrillation and not even... Full story

Wash away varicose veins

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Fifty percent of Americans over age 50 have varicose veins. For women – and men – they can be embarrassing, unattractive, even so painful that it is hard to walk. Now, there’s a new treatment option that uses foam to wash away... Full story

Taping injuries with Kinesio

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You may have noticed it on the bodies of some Olympic athletes or even on soccer superstar David Beckham, but what is it?  There’s a new type of tape on the scene. It’s Kinesio (kin-EE-sea-oh) tape. Volleyball player Kerri Walsh... Full story

Saving your knees

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A new technique is saving young knees. Most people take about 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day. In the average lifetime, that’s 115,000 miles. Most cars wear out by then, so why shouldn’t your knees? More than 400,000 people will need knee... Full story

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