Heed Stroke’s Warning Signs
From the onset of stroke symptoms, time is precious. Getting emergency help within three hours can mean the difference between severe brain damage and full or partial recovery.
Diabetes-Related Health Conditions
Browsing the next page of Diabetes-Related Health Conditions.
Your Medicine Cabinet Needs an Annual Checkup Too
What kind of medicines and other health products should you keep on hand to treat minor ailments or injuries? More importantly, where’s the best place in the house to keep them? Here’s what doctors, nurses and pharmacists recommend.
Walking for Exercise: A Step in the Right Direction
Walking is one of the easiest ways to exercise. You can do it almost anywhere and at any time. Walking is also inexpensive. All you need is apair of comfortable shoes.
Getting Rid of Yeast Infections
It’s an itchy feeling “you might hardly notice at first. Maybe, you muse, it’s just that your jeans are “too tight. Actually, tight jeans may “have something to do with it. But if the itch keeps “getting itchier, even when your jeans have been “off for awhile, then there’s something else involved.
Breast Cancer Glossary
It’s so easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of medical terms. “Take a look at this glossary of terms and procedures relating “to breast cancer – it may clear up some unanswered questions “you’ve had.
Tossing and Turning No More: How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Insomnia, difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, can be short-term and caused by stress or simple lifestyle factors, or chronic and caused by underlying medical disorders such as sleep apnea.
Heading Off Migraine Pain
In the first quarter of Super Bowl XXXII, Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis was hit hard and walked off the field with a towel draped over his head. A developing migraine “made the sunlight difficult to bear….
Getting to Know Gout
Say the word gout and some people will think of a bloated“king surveying the remains of a sumptuous feast, wine glass in“hand, swollen foot propped on a pillow–looking for all the world“like the dismal product of a grossly overindulgent life.
When Summertime Gets Too Hot to Handle
Texas and other southern states have the highest rates of heat illnesses and deaths, but such deaths can occur nearly anywhere. Typically, about 240 people in the United States die from heat illnesses each year, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During heat waves, that number has risen to as high as 1,700.
New Success Against Stroke – Prevention, Improved Therapies Help Fight This Devastating Condition
Stroke incidence is increasing slightly, but new therapies hold promise for reducing stroke’s devastating damage.
Cystic Fibrosis: Tests, Treatments Improve Survival
Because it causes gas, bloating, and other “uncomfortable side effects, fiber may be the Rodney Dangerfield of food constituents. “But with more and more research showing that a high-fiber diet may help prevent “cancer, heart disease, and other serious ailments, roughage has started to get some“ respect…..
Incontinence Can Be Controlled
No one wants to talk about it. Patients don’t bring it up. Physicians don’t ask. Meanwhile, millions suffer in silence as urinary incontinence erodes their quality of life. When it is discussed, all too often, patients are told–incorrectly–that it’s a normal consequence of aging and that they should just get used to it. Misconceptions about incontinence abound among health-care professionals and the public alike.
Reasons for Brain Tumor Increase Not Black and White
It was a routine annual physical, and everything checked out fine. Blood pressure normal, electrocardiogram normal, weight good, no particular complaints–except one. The patient, 65-year-old Sylvia Zeidner of Potomac, Md., had been having some peculiar dizzy spells, and she laughingly told the doctor, I must have a brain tumor.
Tips for Talking to Your Doctor
Today, patients take an active role in their health care. You and your doctor will work in partnership to achieve your best possible level of health. An important part of this relationship is good communication. Here are some questions you can ask your doctor to get your discussion started.
