John O'Donnell's father died from Parkinson's. He also suffers from the disease. John and his wife decided to be proactive. Karen O'Donnell made her her husband had the latest medications, dietary supplements, even online memory exercises.

Their greatest surprise was that music and dancing seemed to change his symptoms. This is true for most Parkinson's patients.

"It feels great, right now we are on a break and I'm shaking a little bit but once I get out there on the floor i don't shake anymore," said Parkinson's patient Bill Perkins.

Doctors said they think that maybe the part of the brain that processes dancing, bypasses Parkinson's.

Or it could be that dancing releases endorphins that somehow affects the Parkinson's, but doctors said they do not know.

If you have a group of people with Parkinson's Disease, they are able to do things on the dance floor that they never could have done before. And they feel things some haven't felt in years.

After conducting a study with 19 Parkinson's patients, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found while dance in general benefits people with Parkinson's, several aspects of tango movement may be especially helpful.

Breast-feeding rates are higher than they've been in 20 years. A report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said about 77 percent of new moms nurse their babies.

Sixty-five percent of black mothers breast-fed their babies. Among whites and Mexican-Americans the percentage is at 79 and 80 percent, respectively.

Experts said the increase in breast feeding is partly due to educational campaigns about the benefits.

A new study said living in a neighborhood filled with trees could help protect children from developing asthma.

Columbia University researchers said childhood asthma rates have been rising steadily since 1980, especially in poor, urban areas.

The data also shows as the density of trees increases, the asthma rates decrease regardless of pollution, income level or population.

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