It is estimated that 85 to 90 percent of adolescents suffer from acne and approximately 80 percent of people ages 11 to 30 will experience... Read More

More than 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s, a disease that slowly robs one of their memory and alters behavior, and almost half of all... Read More

Every time passion sets your heart aflutter or excitement sets it pounding, you’re getting a taste of what it feels like to have an arrhythmia... Read More

Obesity used to be dismissed as a lack of self-control. It’s now seen as a life-threatening disease with links to diabetes, high blood pressure, high... Read More

One in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Although it can be a devastating and deadly disease, there are 2.5 million breast... Read More

By age 80, more than half of all Americans have a cataract, a clouding of the eye lens that causes fogged vision, or have had... Read More

More than 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed within the U.S. this year and more than 4,000 American women will loose... Read More

Approximately 100,000 people are diagnosed with colon cancer annually, and 50,000 die from the disease each year. “It’s very important to detect colon cancer before... Read More

Congestive heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization for people over age 65, and it takes the lives of 250,000 Americans each year. The... Read More

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most common form of heart disease and is the leading cause of death for both men and women in... Read More

More than 4 million Americans are currently living with dementia, a series of symptoms that add up to a progressive decline of cognitive abilities, including... Read More

Roughly 15 million Americans are currently suffering from depression, a debilitating mental disorder that interferes with one’s ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy activities... Read More

Between 15 and 30 million American men experience erectile dysfunction (ED), the repeated inability to maintain an erection firm enough and long enough for sexual... Read More

Currently, 20 million Americans are infected with genital human papillomavirus (HPV), and more than 6 million will acquire the infection each year. The virus is... Read More

The heart has four valves — gate-like leaflets of tissue that open and close with each heartbeat. Their job is to prevent blood from flowing... Read More

Forty years ago, hip joint replacement surgery was a radical new procedure. Today some 300,000 hips are replaced annually. New techniques, technologies and materials mean... Read More

Characterized by persistent difficulty falling or staying asleep, insomnia is a symptom of many sleep disorders. More than 70 million Americans suffer from a sleep... Read More

When deterioration of the knee joint gets so bad that you have bone rubbing on bone, and medication, physical therapy or steroid injections no longer... Read More

Macular degeneration, a chronic eye disease marked by deterioration of the tissue responsible for central vision, is the leading cause of vision loss in adults... Read More

Roughly 400,000 people in the U.S. and 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from multiple sclerosis, a complicated disease that attacks the central nervous system. Scientists... Read More

Approximately 20,000 new cases of ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S., and the disease takes the lives of nearly 15,000 women annually... Read More

More than one million Americans are currently living with Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that causes tremors, difficulty with balance, and stiffness, and 60,000 new... Read More

One in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. This makes a man 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than... Read More

Stroke kills more than 150,000 people a year, making it the third leading cause of death in our country. Those who survive are often left... Read More

When you’re no longer cashing in baby teeth for dollars under the pillow, losing a tooth—or multiple teeth—isn’t a happy event. Unfortunately, statistics show that... Read More

Previously known as juvenile-onset diabetes, type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune system attacks the pancreas, destroying its ability to make insulin. The disease... Read More

More than 23 million Americans are currently living with diabetes, an autoimmune disease that causes the pancreas to stop regulating, making, or making enough of... Read More