Updated: 6:11 PM This year, 785-thousand people in the U.S. will have their first heart attack. Nearly half a million more, who've already had one or more heart attacks, will suffer another one. Heart attacks can do serious damage to the heart and affect everything from its size to its ability to function. Now, researchers believe our own bodies could hold the key to repairing that damage.

Posted: 4:11 PM More than two million men in the U.S. have prostate cancer. This year, doctors will diagnose 217-thousand new cases.Early detection and a host of new treatments can stop it in its tracks, but for the 100-thousand patients whose prostate cancer has spread, there aren't many options. Now, the first FDA approved immunotherapy treatment for prostate cancer is offering late-stage patients new hope.

Updated: 5:59 PM Nine million women in the U.S. have osteoporosis, a loss of calcium in the bones that makes them brittle and susceptible to fracture. Although we think of osteoporosis as a women's disease, men can get it too! Now there's a new way to figure out if *you're* in danger of developing it.

Posted: 6:11 PM Germany's E-coli outbreak has people around the world wondering how safe their food really is. Here in the United States, special agents are working hard to keep your family safe from counterfeit food. The underground industry brings in about 50 billion dollars a year.

Updated: 6:17 PM It can start with a fall off a bike, a car accident, or even an explosion. As many as one-million Americans have had their lives disrupted because of vision problems from a head injury. The optic nerve is essentially the video cable that connects our eyes to our brain. If it's injured, lost vision is usually the result. But one man was one of the lucky ones.

Updated: 10:45 PM One in eight older Americans is living with Alzheimer's disease. Almost twice as many women suffer from it as men. There is also no cure, but slowing it down could be as simple as drinking a high-powered prescription energy drink.

Updated: 10:48 PM Farm animals could help save your limbs. Right now, more than one and a half million people in the U.S. are non-traumatic amputees. Vascular disease, a major complication associated with diabetes, is the most common cause. Now, a new material from cows is healing wounds and halting some amputations.

Updated: 5:45 PM Every year, one-point-seven million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury -- accounting for one in five war injuries. While medicine can keep many of those suffering the most severe cases alive after a coma, giving them back function is something science has been unable to do. Now, a promising study using electromagnetic stimulation could help them wake up.

Updated: 6:17 PM From cancer to Alzheimer's to depression, what you put in your body before and after diagnosis- could be the difference in surviving or dying. Find out which foods do and don't do the body good.

Updated: 11:19 PM What if every step you take, every move you make, every breath you breathe, you were at risk of becoming paralyzed, a quadriplegic, or even dying? That's what some people face all because of an injury you can't see and many doctors misdiagnose or don't know how to treat.

Posted: 6:40 PM How do you boost your mood when you're feeling down? Eating ice cream? Going for a run? Turns out the only things you really need are a bottle of water and a place to lie down. You may think yoga is a bunch of new-age hooey, but your brain feels a different way entirely.

Posted: 10:38 PM About four-million Americans are infected with the Hepatitis C virus, and most of them don't know it. Often, patients live for years or decades with few or no symptoms while the virus destroys the liver. A new treatment has just been approved by the FDA, and it's helping more and more patients rid the body of the virus for good.

Posted: 6:11 PM Retirement is something a lot of hard working folks look forward to. These days, though, a growing number of workers are opting not to retire, for ten years or even longer. But we know a doctor who has gone way beyond that. He's more than a century old, and still working.

Updated: 11:16 PM 68,000 Americans are diagnosed every year with melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. When caught early, a patient has an excellent chance of surviving the disease, but once the disease spread, doctors had very few treatment options. But researchers have found new treatments that may stop the cancer in its tracks.

Posted: 4:06 PM More than five-million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. Now, researchers across the globe hope mapping all genes relating to the disease will help cure it.

Updated: 3:45 PM Vertigo is a sensation thrill seekers will chase for fun, but imagine living with it all the time. More than two million Americans do, but here's a simple way to relieve the dizziness.

Updated: 9:51 PM More than 15-million people suffer from osteo-arthritis of the knee. Now, there's a new way to lessen your pain and get you back on your feet in a matter of weeks.

Updated: 9:47 PM It's a disease most people have never heard of and probably can't begin to pronounce. But three percent of the U.S. population has it -- a hand deformity that can make it impossible to straighten their fingers or even their toes. Surgery used to be the only way to fix it until now

Updated: 9:46 PM Each year more than 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer, but thanks to advancements in treatment 80% of them will survive. Coping with life after cancer has its own consequences, some as devastating as the disease itself.

Posted: 9:49 PM Every year, 750,000 Americans suffer a stroke, and more than 150,000 die. The sooner you get treatment, the better chance you have to survive. A stroke can take away your ability to speak or even move, functions that may never come back. But now, scientists may have found a new way to stop and even reverse that damage.

Updated: 11:18 PM It's the fastest growing cancer in the country and now doctors recommend it be treated more aggressively. Nearly 13,000 Americans will be diagnosed with esophageal cancer this year, and it could be fueled by something as common as acid reflux! But, thanks to new guidelines doctors can zap away the damage before the cancer can form.

Posted: 10:40 PM This year, 1.5 million Americans will be diagnosed with some kind of cancer. Treatment often includes chemotherapy or radiation, but in cancers where not all of the tumor can be removed, one big challenge is making sure the cancer doesn't start growing again. Now, there's a new experimental approach: personalized treatment that's as unique as the patients themselves.

Updated: 10:47 PM It's been said that the eyes are a window to the soul, but could the same hold true for our nails? Dermatologists say changes in nail color and texture could indicate a serious health problem.

Updated: 10:49 PM It only happens to one out of every 10,000 people, but if you're that one person who develops a salivary stone, it can make something as simple as swallowing painful and difficult. It can take open surgery, and sometimes even removing the salivary gland itself, just to get the stone out. Now, there's a new, high-tech approach to removing these painful stones without a single scar.

Posted: 6:50 PM June fifth through eleventh is national headache awareness week.