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Expert says shoes are the best place to put the tech to help locate people with the disease who wander

The new drug Kalydeco is being hailed as a breakthrough in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, targeting the underlying genetic cause of the disease decreasing the symptoms. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

Prevention magazine Contributing Editor Dr. Holly Phillips speaks to the "Early Show" anchors about the health dangers of musician Barry Manilow's heart condition, atrial fribrillation, and how the disease is treated.

Steve Jobs was a rare case, right down to his death. Announced Wednesday, Jobs's death from "complications of pancreatic cancer" only hints at the vast complexity of the disease to which he succumbed at the age of 56.

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple , died Wednesday at age 56. The cause was pancreatic cancer. Jobs had been battling cancer for at least 6 years, telling his employees in 2004 that he was being treated for the disease, and undergoing a l iver transplant in 2009.

A new study, called the DIAN study, is following multiple generations of family members across the globe with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reports on a Seattle family that is providing never-before insights into the disease's first signs

California issued a statewide mandate for students to get the TDAP shot - a whooping cough vaccine - following a deadly outbreak of the disease last year. And, as John Blackstone reports, not everyone is falling willingly into line.

Contrary to popular belief, intrauterine contraceptive devices might actually protect women against developing cervical cancer even though they don't stop the infection that commonly leads to the disease, according to the results of an international study.

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The boy was perhaps seven or eight, although he could have been older: among other things, the disease that afflicts him stunts growth.

BOSTON – The world has seen seven global cholera outbreaks since 1817, and the current one seems to have come to stay. Rising temperatures and a stubbornly persistent, toxic bacteria strain appear to have given the disease the upper hand. Public health officials are working on vaccines, struggling to improve sanitation in impoverished nations and grasping for ways to predict the outbreaks

The underpinnings of autism are turning out to be even more varied than the disease's diverse manifestations. In four new studies and an analysis published June 8 researchers have added some major landmarks in the complex landscape of the disease, uncovering clues as to why the disease is so much more prevalent in male children and how such varied genetic mutations can lead to similar symptoms.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee have for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type of the protein that causes Huntington's disease. The incurable, hereditary neurological disorder is always fatal and affects one in 10,000 Americans.

Hundreds of people may have been told they tested positive for syphilis when they didn't actually have the disease, health officials say.