Chemotherapy drugs have been successfully treating cancer patients for decades. Unfortunately for some, the side effects last a lifetime.

It's called cleft lip and palate, a condition that affects 1 in 1000 babies. It occurs when the tissue in the developing mouth and the palate don't fuse together properly.

If your career is in nursing, then you are a giver but for some nurses, nursing is more than just a job.

Killer produce and new guidelines for children's cold medications topped the health headlines across the nation in 2008. Health reporter Kafi Drexel filed the following report.

It’s a treatment designed to help women recover more quickly from breast cancer. Approved by the FDA in 2002, MammoSite Targeted Radiation Therapy has been used on 32,000 women with positive results. Casey Bortnick has more.

According to American Asthma reports, asthma accounts for one-quarter of all emergency room visits in the United States each year. For every 1,000 people admitted to the hospital for asthma, 11 people die.

Dealing with diabetes can be especially hard around the holidays. Casey Bortnick has more.

Puberty is a time when a young boy starts becoming a man their body starts to change. They get taller and gain weight. They may even experience emotional issues that can be very confusing. Marcie Fraser has more.

A new study from the American College of Physicians now published in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates colonoscopy may play no role in preventing deaths from cancer that develops on the right side of the colon.

According the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the number overweight children in the in America has tripled in last two decades. And as winter sets in it can be more and more difficult to get kids away from video games and into physical activity. It is regular exercise that experts say kids really need all year round.

As Health reporter Kafi Drexel explains in the following report, in addition to vitamins, eating healthy and hand washing, a trip to the gym each day just might help keep the doctor away.

According to reports, one out of every 150 children are born with autism. While treatments vary, one that has been proven very effective is music.

Are you a young woman and think osteoporosis is a disease that affects only menopausal women? You are wrong. You can start losing bone as early as in your twenties. Marcie Fraser has more.

According to the National Kidney Foundation, over 95,000 U.S. patients are currently waiting for an organ transplant. Nearly 4,000 new patients are added to the waiting list each month. The key to success is having the closest possible blood and tissue matches. A family member is not always the best match. But for one little boy who needed a second kidney transplant, a family member was a match, twice.

Are you a parent and have you had that talk with your kids about sex? According to experts, the information should come from you, the parents, and not the kids on the bus.