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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year it's estimated that more than 230-thousand women will be diagnosed with the disease, but there are steps you can take to reduce your risk.

Battling Cancer can have many side-effects and setbacks. In today's Health Watch, Doctor Timothy Johnson has news about help for women fighting bone loss after Breast Cancer treatment.

It's been a couple of months since school started up, but for many teens the routine of getting up early never gets any easier. In tonight's Health Watch, Elizabeth Cohen takes a look at a new study showing the benefits of delaying school start times.

Since The Food and Drug Administration approved Avastin in 2004, the drug has been an effective weapon in treating cancer. Now the agency warns the drug may have adverse effects in some women.

With children back in school, this may mean dealing with an outbreak of head lice. For tonight's Health Watch, Susan Hendricks tells parents what to look for and how to treat a case of head lice.

Men obviously don't know the joy that comes with being pregnant and some moms-to-be remind us of that often, but now thanks to Japanese researchers, men can get a taste of the experience with a pregnancy simulator.

There is a new study about how women who wear makeup are perceived, the psychological implications and the findings are both revealing and potentially helpful. In fact a few men might be visiting the cosmetics counter after they hear this.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers parents a recommended schedule for vaccinations, but a new survey says that not everyone follows the guidance.

From New York to New Delhi to New South Wales, people are twittering. More than 100 million users posting more than 200 million tweets each day and buried inside of that torrent of tweets, a portrait of humanity's mood
swings.

Baby Boomers, most of them are planning to be pretty active and healthy when they retire. That's if they aren't already, but a new poll shows that Baby Boomers need to take off the rose-colored glasses when it comes to their health.