The federal government reported Friday a record number of babies were born to unmarried women in the United States last year.

The nearly 1.5 million unwed births amounted to about 36 percent of all births in the country. And those moms were more likely to be 20-somethings than teenagers, according to the new federal data

Researchers have discovered a possible cause of prostate cancer, a finding they say could result in better forms of treatment or possibly a cure. Doctors had thought prostate cancer was the result of lots of random genetic mutations, but a study involving the University of Michigan Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests prostate cancer begins after specific genes fuse.

This new information may allow doctors to begin to divide prostate cancer -- which is now treated as a single disease -- into different types as they have been treating breast cancer for years

A British Medical Journal study challenges the belief abortion yields a higher risk of depression.

The authors suggest abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression through beneficial effects on education, income, and family size

Researchers have discovered a possible cause of prostate cancer, a finding they say could result in better forms of treatment or possibly a cure. Doctors had thought prostate cancer was the result of lots of random genetic mutations, but a study involving the University of Michigan Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests prostate cancer begins after specific genes fuse.

This new information may allow doctors to begin to divide prostate cancer -- which is now treated as a single disease -- into different types as they have been treating breast cancer for years

A British Medical Journal study challenges the belief abortion yields a higher risk of depression.

The authors suggest abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression through beneficial effects on education, income, and family size