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A new study finds that nearly one-in-four women with breast cancer have more than one surgery. Dr. Rache Simmons, chief of breast surgery at NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, talks to Gayle King and Erica Hill about how the number of surgeries could be reduced.

Eric Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine, on epigenetics and human behavior, called Hidden Switches In The Mind .

A medical center in Maine is offering a different kind of payment plan in order to make health care more accessible. Erica Hill reports on the center's barter for health care program.

Rock icons Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend hope to build first teen-only cancer center at UCLA Medical Center

Rebecca Jarvis speaks with the chief of breast surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York Dr. Elisa Port about where we are and how far we've come in the war on breast cancer.

To the list of cocaine’s many dangers, health officials have added at least one more: purpura, a rash caused by internal bleeding from small blood vessels. Two recent papers in major medical journals have documented cases of cocaine users showing up in emergency rooms with patches of blackened, dying skin on the ears, face, trunk or extremities. The condition causes scarring and sometimes requires reconstructive surgery.

Autism, a developmental disorder that causes deficits in social behavior and communication, affects four times as many boys as girls.

For most of the past century the scientific consensus held that the adult human brain did not produce any new neurons. Researchers overturned that theory in the 1990s, but what role new neurons played in the adult human brain remained a mystery. Recent work now sug

Boston's Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center is one of three hospitals in the city testing a new program to help lower-level workers earn a degree free of charge. Seth Doane reports on the hospital's program that trains up from within.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are working with medical researchers at Loma Linda University Medical Center to develop a new imaging technology to guide proton therapy for cancer treatment.