Posted: 4:52 PM The biggest study of its kind says Ritalin and other drugs used to treat attention deficit disorder are safe for adults' hearts.

Posted: 6:55 AM A new medical report says the tiniest babies, some weighing under a pound, still face long odds of merely surviving, and that success stories are the exception, not the rule.

Updated: 11:58 PM As parents most of us pray every day that our children will remain healthy and thrive. But for some children that's a tough order to fill, especially when they are born with a disorder for which there is no cure.

Updated: 8:06 PM Don't sweat it. We all have about two million sweat glands in our body. A little sweating here and there is normal, and even healthy, but for some people, excessive sweating can be embarrassing. And now a new procedure is stopping the sweat.

Updated: 12:42 PM Ovarian cancer is still the leading cause of death due to gynecologic cancers, and researchers around the globe are working to try and find a way to stop this insidious disease, which is often found too late to treat.

Posted: 2:05 PM Democrats in the Michigan House are renewing calls for a law requiring insurance companies to offer coverage for certain autism treatments.

Posted: 1:04 PM The nation's health secretary says young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription - a surprise move overruling her own experts, who were preparing to let it be sold on drugstore shelves like condoms.

Updated: 12:03 AM He didn't make it on to the Biggest Loser, but an Elkhart man is still winning his weight loss battle.

Posted: 6:31 PM Some important health news out Tuesday, a new study of pregnant women suggests rice continues to be a source of arsenic in our diet. The chemical occurs naturally in soil, but can also come from pesticides.

Updated: 7:16 PM Thinning hair, loss of eyelashes, no breasts. It's a reality many breast cancer patients face after chemo and a mastectomy. But with fat-grafting, patients can get their breasts back using their own stem cells.

Updated: 10:56 AM Young, old, black and white, diabetes can hit anyone, at any time. Along with the 26 million people who know they have it, millions remain undiagnosed.

Updated: 7:03 PM We all know working out can help boost your mood, but what about one that can make your spirits soar? A new form of yoga has students, literally, flying high.

Posted: 4:08 AM Ball State University researchers say Indiana adults are suffering from asthma in record numbers and that Hispanics and blacks have the state's highest adult rates of the chronic lung disease.

Posted: 6:45 AM Bed sores were again the most common Indiana medical errors last year, closely followed by foreign objects left inside patients after surgeries.

Updated: 12:42 PM You've seen it in movies like Saving Private Ryan, Combat Medics rushing to the aid of injured troops, putting their own lives on the line to save their comrades.

Posted: 4:09 PM The FDA has declared the breast cancer fighting drug Avastin no longer be used.

Posted: 4:51 PM Tuesday was a beautiful day in Michiana, but let's face it we've had some really dreary days and they can be depressing. But Memorial Hospital is helping out by offering free light therapy through their health discovery center.

Updated: 4:04 AM Terre Haute's Union Hospital is investing $100,000 in Marion University's new College of Osteopathic Medicine, becoming the sixth Indiana hospital to back the institution.

Posted: 7:42 AM A 2005 Indiana law that would have provided free birth control to low-income women was never implemented because the state's social services agency failed to complete the process to apply for a Medicaid expansion program.

Updated: 8:08 PM In light of the recent scandal at Penn State, now is a good time to think about how you would handle witnessing sexual abuse and how to watch for warning signs in your own children.

Posted: 6:33 AM A new study says biomedical research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and its partner hospitals pumped about $370 million into Indiana's economy in 2009.

Updated: 6:01 PM Cancer vaccines could be the next step in the fight against the most common forms of this deadly disease.

Posted: 4:09 PM The American Diabetes Association is on a mission to put an end to the disease.

Posted: 6:11 AM Indiana University scientists have been awarded a $9 million federal grant to continue their efforts to unlock the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Posted: 4:19 AM A new device at Memorial Outpatient Therapy is the only machine in the region that tests and evaluates balance.