There is more evidence that living near parks, woods, or other green spaces may improve your mental and physical health.

  Patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease or other age-related dementias often suffer unnecessarily near the end of life probably because their condition is not recognized as fatal, researchers say.

  The U.S. pregnancy rate dropped by 11% from 1990 to 2005, a new CDC report shows.

  Despite earlier reports to the contrary, having bypass surgery to help your heart does not harm your brain, researchers report.

  A diet rich in cruciferous and green leafy vegetables, nuts, fish, and tomatoes and low in red meat and high-fat dairy products may protect against Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.

  Cancer patients find chemotherapy less physically and emotionally exhausting if they're in an intense program of cardio, strength, relaxation, and body-awareness training.

  Less invasive endoscopic repair of deadly aortic aneurysms is easier on patients and -- at least for 2 years -- carries no extra risk of death.

  Doctors recommend breast-conserving surgery for 3 in 4 women with early breast cancer. Second opinions rarely differ, so surgeon advice doesn't raise mastectomy rates.

  Minimally invasive prostate surgery -- often performed using a high-tech robot -- carries a higher risk of incontinence and erectile dysfunction than does open surgery.

  Hip fracture rates and deaths related to such injuries are decreasing in the U.S. among people aged 65 and older, a study shows.

  Low doses of melatonin may help children with autism get a better night's rest, researchers report.

  Researchers have found new evidence that it's possible for a mother with cancer to pass the disease on to her unborn child.

  Women with heart disease may have worse outcomes than men do because treatment typically focuses on obstructive coronary artery disease -- which up to half of women may not have, according to a new review of the topic.

  A certain form of the P13K gene could be a key to keeping the heart young and preventing age-related heart failure, Japanese researchers report.