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.
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.
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.
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.
The Gallbladder: An Organ You Can Live Without
The gallbladder is a small, muscular, pear-shaped sac nestled in a depression on the right underside of the liver. It holds about a quarter of a cup of a yellowish-green, pasty material called bile. Bile contains water, bile salts and acids, pigments, cholesterol, phospholipids (a type of fat molecule), and electrolytes (electrically charged fluids). Bile tastes bitter, and this is why the word bilehas come to denote bitterness. Bile breaks up, or emulsifies, large globs of fat into smaller globs in the small intestine, a first step in fat digestion.
What Is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points. Tender points refers to tenderness that occurs in precise, localized areas, particularly in the neck, spine, shoulders, and hips. People with this syndrome may also experience sleep disturbances, morning stiffness, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, and other symptoms.
Radiation Aids Arteries After Angioplasty
The world’s oceans and waterways hold great promise “as the source of new drugs, biologics, and medical “devices.