The women of today may be at risk of osteoporosis, but treatments are now available to help strengthen bones, and repair spinal fractures.

Everyone knows they should watch their cholesterol, but do you know why? If you have high cholesterol, you may have twice the risk for heart disease -- the number one health problem for both women and men in the United States.

With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by. With that popularity, it's no surprise that military history sites are reporting unprecedented Web traffic.

For many patients, a cancer diagnosis is no longer a fatal one. However, the comfort that a patient's condition is treatable is often accompanied by dread of the grueling treatment that will be needed to save his or her life. But a new therapy holds hope for treating some cancers in just a single day, rather than through months of harsh radiation therapy.

Some 50 million Americans live with chronic pain linked to disease, while another 25 million experience periodic pain caused by injury or surgery. Yet recent headlines about harmful side effects of some popular prescription pain medications have many people thinking twice before swallowing a pill for their pain. Consumers are rediscovering the benefits of topical pain relief.

Whether you've noticed the signs of aging in family and friends, or acknowledged how it affects your own mind and body, getting older is an unavoidable part of life. And while Ponce de Leon never found the Fountain of Youth, daily preventative measures can be taken to help you age beautifully both inside and out.

Advances in medications have, over the past few years, made a big impact on the quality of life for heart failure patients. These medicines can help stabilize heart function, relieve symptoms, keep patients out of the hospital, even extend and improve quality of life.