University of Texas researchers testing a small group of women undergoing radiation for breast cancer found that yoga lessens the side effects of medical treatment and enhances well being.

The top yogis of Los Angeles are living much like the celebrities who attend their classes—hiring marketing consultants and personal assistants, traveling constantly, and earning upper-echelon incomes.

Parents of special-needs children are seeking out yoga as a complement in a series of therapies, and they report benefits in cases as diverse as autism, Down syndrome, and lesser sensory disorders.

From disco yoga to yoga in the nude, gyms across the country are reshaping the practice to satisfy more than 16.5 million enthusiasts nationwide. Experts wonder if the trend is stripping yoga of its value.

As yoga becomes increasingly popular, health-care professionals are seeing more skin infections—jock itch, plantar warts, and staph infections—that they are tracing to high-trafficked public mats that haven’t been properly cleaned.

A growing number of kids with attention, anxiety and learning disorders, as well as diseases such as autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis, are embracing yoga-parents are reporting physical, mental and emotional benefits.

Even though it’s not a part of their official training, military personnel increasingly are performing yoga exercises to build core strength and repair injuries.

Cognizant that traditional medicine doesn't stretch far enough, some patients and medical professionals are turning to yoga when illness—even cancer—strikes; the government is helping to fund research into the ancient practice’s role as an alternative treatment.

Los Angeles prosecutors charged "hot yoga" guru Bikram Choudhury with operating a yoga studio without a permit and other violations that could land the controversial instructor in the slammer.

Suggestions that the ancient Indian practice of yoga can favorably impact the health of cancer patients has taken a new direction with a recent collaboration between Indian and American cancer research foundations.