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As colorectal cancer cases rise in young adults, people in their 30s or 40s must never assume they’re too young to get the disease. UT Southwestern suggests that healthier lifestyle choices and earlier screenings could prevent some of these cases and facilitate early detection. Learn more.

Delayed pushing during delivery is a common practice, but resting between full cervical dilation and the pushing stage might do more harm than good. In this week’s Your Pregnancy Matters blog, UT Southwestern discusses what women should know about delayed vs. immediate pushing.

Enhance your eye wrinkles without surgery. Oculoplastic surgeons offer expert precision to achieve effective results quickly. Learn more.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can rob patients of mobility in their fingers and other joints of the body. When medication alone isn’t enough to treat the symptoms, plastic surgery can effectively manage the disease and improve the appearance of the hands. Learn more.

Pancreatic cancer is aggressive and tough to beat. How researchers are staying a step ahead of this dangerous disease.

Studies could lead to new treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Pregnancy complications are an unfortunate fact of life. However, just because something occurs once doesn’t mean it’s certain to happen again. Learn what some of the most common complications are – and what the chances are that they’ll recur.

Many eye disorders are, ironically, invisible to doctors’ unaided eyes. Find out how the advanced technology available to retinal ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern makes it possible to diagnose these conditions.

MitraClip has emerged as a treatment option for patients with mitral valve disease who are not healthy enough for valve replacement surgery. However, the device is approved for only a small patient pool – and it might be unnecessary with optimized medical therapy.

Many women think getting pregnant is the only way to become a “real mom.” Uterine transplantation, a major surgery available in clinical trials, is presented as a hopeful option. But UT Southwestern says it is too risky, and motherhood means more than carrying a baby.