And I'm Barbara Klein. Today we tell about Alzheimer's disease. More than a century after its discovery, Alzheimer's disease is still destroying people's brains. The cause remains unknown.
Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. It starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside most bones. Bone marrow is where blood cells are made.
When testing of the new vaccine for H1N1 swine flu began, experts believed most adults would need two doses because it is a new virus. But two new studies show most adults are protected after just one dose.
Hearing someone talk about suicide can be distressful and upsetting. You want to help him or her stay safe and get professional treatment. But you may not be sure how to help, whether you should take talk of suicide seriously, or if your intervention might even make the situation worse.
A miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy during the first 20 weeks. It is usually your body's way of ending a pregnancy that has had a bad start. The loss of a pregnancy can be very hard to accept. You may wonder why it happened or blame yourself. But a miscarriage is no one’s fault, and you can't prevent it.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects nearly one in four adults in the UK.
Ovarian cancer is hard to spot - and as a result it is often advanced by the time diagnosis is made.
The human body is made up of hundreds of different types of cell, all of which behave differently.
Nosebleeds are more often annoying than a serious health threat, although they can indicate the presence of other underlying illnesses.