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PDAs are great, aren’t they? By pressing a button, they can keep you in touch or keep you on schedule. But can they help women battle breast cancer, too? Some experts think so and they’re trying out the idea.

A record number of people are surviving organ transplants in this country — but sadly, almost all of them are getting skin cancer. In fact, the risk of getting skin cancer is up to 250 times higher for a transplant survivor than it is for the rest of us. But a new discovery in the lab might bring those numbers down.

A teen has a rare genetic disorder called Prader Willi. It makes Kayla Dennette think she is never full. Kayla spent the last two months at a specialty hospital in Pittsburg. It’s the only place in the country to treat Prader Willi Syndrome. The sixteen year old once well over 300 pounds is now home fifty pounds lighter.

Heinok Belete was only 14 years old when he died from Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome, or SADS. Now his family and others want to raise money to help find a cure for SADS with a climb of Mt. Rainier.

Movies & video games have rating systems for kids - why not the snacks they eat? About 1 in 3 kids are overweight and some experts say snacking on the wrong food is a big issue. Now, making better snack choices is as easy as checking its rating.

With such a great emphasis being placed on the importance of food and nutrition in our society today, it is only natural that consumers may be confused and have questions about our titles and what we do to obtain them. There are three titles that have been queried recently: dietitian, nutritionist and Registered Dietitian. Let’s take a look at some of these questions individually. This is the first part of a three part series.

HbA1C is a test commonly used by people who have diabetes to determine their overall blood sugar control over the past several weeks. Recently, it was brought to the attention of researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center that the test was not accurate in their diabetic dialysis population.

A new study suggests that a stomach virus may be partly responsible for chronic fatigue syndrome.

Laser treatment in physical therapy is an up and coming medical treatment that helps to speed recovery.