Posted: 5:03 PM Scientists are attempting something dramatically different in the quest to stave off the creeping memory loss of Alzheimer's disease. They're using "brain pacemakers."

Updated: 6:40 PM If you were watching News Center 16’s meteorologist Mike Hoffman coughing his way through his forecasts last week you know he wasn't feeling well. So this week Mike made the surgical leap to do something about his persistent sinus infections and underwent a safe, less invasive procedure called Baloon Sinuplasty.

Updated: 6:36 PM ACL injuries have increased 400-percent among teens and adolescents in the last ten years, but it may come as a surprise that they are also on the rise in the baby boomer generation as well. To make sure patients do not have to pay out-of-pocket to fix the injury, doctors are using a new tool to prove that surgery works in order to continue providing coverage when new health care laws are put in place.

Posted: 11:24 AM The St. Joseph County Health Department is offering free Flu-Mist (nasal spray) vaccines for school-aged children with no history of chronic disease.

Updated: 7:04 PM IU Health is offering free cervical and breast cancer screenings next week.

Posted: 7:40 PM Authorities say the number of meningitis and other infections linked to contaminated steroids has risen to 239 in Michigan. That includes 14 deaths.

Updated: 4:01 PM The Indiana State Department of Health published the school immunization requirements for the 2013-2014 school year and some new requirements have been added.

Updated: 6:49 PM It is a list that no one wants to be on, but more than 90,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant right now. One doctor is now working on a way to reduce that list to zero.

Posted: 3:42 PM The Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to last year’s deadly meningitis outbreak blames its cleaning contractor for the incident.

Updated: 5:38 PM A federal panel recently released a surprising report that found meditation may actually be able to change a person’s brain.

Posted: 2:57 PM Health officials say 2012 was the nation's worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades.

Updated: 6:59 PM COPD is the third most common cause of death in the U.S., and as the disease progresses it can do irreversible damage to patients’ lungs. Doctors have a new instrument, the lung flute, to help people like Bernard Swanekamp who suffer from the chronic disease.

Posted: 10:01 PM Two men injured in car crash in Howard Township Monday afternoon.

Updated: 6:42 PM Around eighty-percent of all women in the U.S. will take birth control at some point in their lives, but the burden of taking “the pill” could soon no longer rest on women’s shoulders alone.

Updated: 6:43 PM Millions of people are made miserable by dry eye disease, and with a variety of causes comes a variety of solutions like medications, eye drops and ointments, all of which strive to give patients a little relief. Now there is a new eye-opening option for dry eye sufferers called Lipiflow that only takes a few minutes.

Updated: 6:41 PM It is the leading cause of legal blindness in older Americans, and every year, 250,000 people in the U.S. are treated for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (A.M.D.)

Updated: 6:46 PM Diabetes has been called the “epidemic of the 21st century,” and has killed more people than all cancers combined.

Posted: 6:37 PM Every year between five and 20-percent of the U.S. population gets the flu, and those infected may be passing it along before they even know they are sick. But, researchers are currently hard at work developing better ways to fight the viral infection.

Updated: 6:41 PM An estimated 33 percent of all Americans misuse alcohol, a dangerous statistic that has resulted in 85,000 preventable deaths a year.

Updated: 6:45 PM A Bass Lake bar is burnt down during an early morning fire.

Updated: 6:34 PM 60-million adults are now obese, a disease that costs 147-billion dollars to treat, Annually. As Maureen McFadden reports, a new less invasive procedure is helping people who've tried everything. To finally gain control of their weight.

Updated: 6:43 PM In 2008 more than 600,000 total knee replacement surgeries were performed. A study released this year shows that the 2008 figure was up 134-percent from 1999. But one doctor says that many people could benefit from something much simpler.

Updated: 6:36 PM Cancer and heart attack both top the list of health concerns for most Americans, but Alzheimer’s Disease, the sixth leading cause of death, is a disease that ought to be on American’s radar.

Updated: 9:33 PM Hundreds of drugs in the U.S. are unavailable to those who need them most. And after years of watching the situation get worse and worse, something is finally being done about it.

Posted: 10:32 PM The largest study to test daily multivitamin use finds they modestly lowered the risk for cancer in middle-aged and older men but did not seem to affect the chances of developing heart disease.