ROCKFORD — It’s a matter of women helping women and turning a negative into a chance to do something positive. That’s how Dr. Landon Pryor and Randa Noble of the Rockford Rescue Mission describe a plan to collect still-good bras and distribute them to women in crisis.

TAMPA, Fla. — Interventional radiologists have opened the door to a potential future treatment for breast cancer: image-guided, multiprobe cryotherapy.

WASHINGTON — Women might think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome, the thing that makes a man male, is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Five University of Michigan inventors have lined up $11 million for a company that will make their ultrasound tool for treating prostate disease without surgery.

CHICAGO — There’s a glimmer of hope in new data on obesity in Chicago kids.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s emergency physicians are urging America’s students to stay safe during their spring break vacations by offering 10 tips to help avoid a trip to the emergency department.