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: 6:44 PM Rheumatoid arthritis causes more than a million people to cringe in pain every day. 75 percent of those people are women.

Posted: 8:09 PM Last month, NewsCenter 16 introduced you to a South Bend infant named Maci Puskar, who was in a severe fight for her life.

Updated: 4:25 PM Congratulation to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center for being named one of the nation's top 15 health systems.

Updated: 12:42 PM There's new evidence that the prevalence of obesity in America may have leveled-off. It's still going to take a lot of work to reverse the trend.

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.

Posted: 6:34 AM The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for developing effective ways to treat and prevent Alzheimer's disease by 2025.

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.

Posted: 4:16 PM You may be in favor of breastfeeding, but should it be shown and emphasized on the popular children's program "Sesame Street"?

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.

Posted: 4:07 AM Three Indianapolis hospitals are participating in a national cancer research project.

Posted: 3:56 PM A controversial abortion law in Texas is moving forward.

Posted: 3:53 PM Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs.

Posted: 3:48 PM Nearly 40 million Americans say they binge drink at least once a week. That's according to a startling new CDC report.

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: 9:36 PM South Bend's Parks and Recreation Department wants to hear what you think it can do to curb childhood obesity.

Updated: 6:59 PM An estimated 4 million American women abuse alcohol and many of them have mastered hiding their problem from loved ones.

Posted: 9:25 PM The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications like Excedrin and Gas-X made at a Novartis manufacturing plant.

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: 12:25 AM They’re the ones people usually call for help, but on Sunday night, hundreds of residents came together to help an Elkhart police officer. Jesus Contreras’ two-year-old daughter, Taylor, was diagnosed with a tumor behind her eye and a form of muscle cancer a few months ago.

Posted: 10:27 PM Looking to angle in an a market that is growing fast, Bristol-Myers will spend $2.5 billion to acquire hepatitis C drug developer Inhibitex Inc., which saw its share price double in one day recently on early stage data of a treatment it is developing.

Updated: 12:42 PM Each year thousands of women undergo hysterectomies for a number of reasons, but one South Bend woman felt having the operation could mean the difference between life and death.

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.