A new study reveals new digital mammogram techniques are better than standard X-rays at spotting cancer. The American College of Radiology Imaging Network studied 50,000 patients, finding standard film X-ray mammograms work just as well for most post-menopausal women. Digital mammographies, however, detect up to 28-percent more cancers than standard mammograms in younger women.

Constantine Gatsonis, network statistician for ACRIN and one of the study's researchers says, "The data show that digital mammography is, on average, as good at detecting breast cancer as film mammography -- and in some important subgroups of women, digital performs even better. Neither film nor digital mammography is able to catch every cancer. So, this study data can be used to develop and improve mammography in the coming years

More than half of American teens ages 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, increasing to nearly 70% for those who are 18 and 19, according to the largest federal study of the nation's sexual practices.

Findings now suggest a shift in sexual practices, in which females are using oral and lesbian sex "as a safer alternative than [vaginal] sex with men

A Study suggests women are nearly twice as likely as men to die from complications of heart bypass surgery.

In a review of records for 15,440 patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), researchers found that 4.24-percent of women died during or immediately after surgery, versus 2.23-percent of men, a statistically significant difference

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston conducted a study that finds tanning habits result from a type of addiction. The study criteria was based on methods used to evaluate alcoholism and drug dependency

The fifth suspected victim in the same underpopulated area of Idaho, died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain-wasting disease that typically afflicts only one in a million people.

"Is what is happening in Idaho an anomaly, a statistical fluke? That is possible," said Ermias Belay, a top CJD expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta who is helping advise officials in Idaho. "But once it exceeds 1.5 or 2 per million, you start asking questions