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.
Radiation Aids Arteries After Angioplasty
The world’s oceans and waterways hold great promise “as the source of new drugs, biologics, and medical “devices.
Lights, Camera, Telemedicine
In Hays, Kansas, an infant is born with a heart murmur. Because there is a slight chance of severe cardiac problems when this happens, Robert Cox, M.D., a pediatrician and medical director of rural development and telemedicine at Hays Medical Center, seeks the advice of a cardiologist in Kansas City, which is 270 miles away.
New Attitudes Towards Menopause
By the end of this century, “more women than ever before will be experiencing the sometimes “uncomfortable symptoms that accompany the end of menstruation “and natural childbearing capacity.
Watery Eyes? Runny Nose? Time to Spring into Action Against Seasonal Allergies
By the time her daughter, Brooke, was 18 months old, Nancy “Sander of Fairfax, Va., had discovered “the child was allergic to much of the environment around “her. Her eyes watered and her nose ran constantly. “Worse yet, her allergy symptoms triggered frightening asthma attacks….
