Baby Ella - Battling SMA and Living the Life of a Princess
Updated: 12:42 PM Baby Ella Hunt is fighting a fatal illness but her parents want her to experience as many things little girls enjoy while she can.
Updated: 12:42 PM Baby Ella Hunt is fighting a fatal illness but her parents want her to experience as many things little girls enjoy while she can.
Posted: 6:47 PM Stem cells, they could hold the key to the treatment and cure of more than 70 major diseases and conditions.
Updated: 7:12 PM A broken pelvis is a painful injury that is often difficult to repair. Getting to the bones can be tricky because many organs, nerves, and blood vessels lie within the pelvis. Now, surgeons are using new technology to fix the problem.
Updated: 3:47 PM Researchers have developed a new early warning system that could save you from one of the leading killers of men and women.
Updated: 7:14 PM It's called off-label drug use, when drugs meant for a specific condition are prescribed to treat another ailment.
Updated: 7:22 PM Every year knee replacements can put half a million Americans out of commission for a month or more. Now, without cutting any muscles, a new option is cutting recovery time.
Updated: 7:17 PM In the next 12 months, 50,000 people will die from colorectal cancer. The worst part is that most of these deaths could have been prevented if the cancer was detected sooner.
Updated: 6:38 PM 80,000 American women choose to get a mastectomy each year, but there are some reconstruction options you may not know exist.
Updated: 6:37 PM From babies to grown-ups, it's a digestive problem that can hit anyone.
Updated: 6:44 PM Rheumatoid arthritis causes more than a million people to cringe in pain every day. 75 percent of those people are women.
Updated: 7:04 PM Most US troops have cleared out of Iraq. As soldiers head stateside, a lot have trouble leaving the battlefield behind.
Updated: 12:42 PM Elkhart General Home care offers infusions at home rather than hospital. It's a welcome change for people who need IV's to get healthy.
Updated: 6:39 PM It's a pain in the chest 9 million Americans live with every day. Angina is treatable, but most of the time patients have to take medication for the rest of their lives to control it.
Updated: 6:51 PM A mysterious birth defect that often comes with a perfectly normal pregnancy is taking parents by surprise, and the condition can kill up to 30 percent of children who are born with it.
Updated: 6:36 PM Four months. It may not seem like a long time to many people, but for those with cancer, it's 120 days they might not have.
Updated: 6:36 PM Taking a pill to help get rid of fear? For many people with OCD and other anxiety disorders it sounds too good to be true. Now an antibiotic once used to treat tuberculosis, could change the way doctors treat fear disorders.
Updated: 6:35 PM In medicine, there's one ultimate enemy. It's what doctors try their hardest to avoid and what patients will fight until they have no options left.
Updated: 6:59 PM An estimated 4 million American women abuse alcohol and many of them have mastered hiding their problem from loved ones.
Updated: 6:53 PM Infertility means not being able to get pregnant after one year of trying. Or, six months, if a woman is over 35. With one in eight couples experiencing it, there are also a lot of myths out there surrounding infertility.
Updated: 12:42 PM A South Bend woman wanted to make sure the estrogen factor that led to her breast cancer did not spread to her female organs, so her doctor offered her a laparoscopic robotic hysterectomy
Updated: 6:39 PM The future's not looking very bright for millions of Americans.
Updated: 5:35 PM Nancye Swanson does her own nails these days. Six months ago, she almost died from something she picked up at a salon.
Updated: 6:45 PM The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened for autism twice before age 2. However, only between 5 and 7 percent of pediatricians perform a formal screening.
Updated: 7:58 PM Cell phones and computers have evolved by leaps and bounds over the last few decades. Now, it's time for medical devices to do the same.
Updated: 6:37 PM Imagine being told you have a five pound tumor growing inside you. Now imagine getting that news, when you're 13 years-old. That's exactly what happened to one girl.