Death From Epilepsy
Seizures can be a very frightening scene, especially when the victim is a child. Parents of epileptic children often worry about the child suddenly dying during a seizure. A new study offers reassurance to...
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Act FAST
Early detection and treatment can help a stroke victim survive and decrease the severity of long-term damage. Learn the symptoms of stroke by memorizing a simple acronym: FAST… F is for facial numbness, especially...
Intense Training for Breathing Problems
Research has shown high-intensity training is an effective way to treat patients with breathing problems. However, this intense training is often too difficult for the patient to do for long periods of time. Now,...
Voice Wellness
Hoarseness after talking all-day or cheering at a sporting event is a common sign of vocal chord fatigue. Most of the time it goes away, but if you continue to stress your voice, you...
Could You Have Whooping Cough?
Whooping cough. The term conjures up images of poor, sick children making the characteristic whoop as they struggle to bring air into their sick lungs. While this image may once have been accurate, the...
Obstructive Lung Disease and Death
A long-term study shows people with chronic lung disease are at a higher risk for early death. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an umbrella term used to describe airflow obstruction that is associated mainly...
Low Weight and Lung Disease
Does severe lung disease cause you to lose weight or is low weight a risk factor for developing the lung disease? Doctors around the United States recently set out to understand the connection between...
Treating Cholera
A commonly used antibiotic may be part of the answer to preventing 5,000 deaths annually from cholera. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cholera is a major public-health problem around the world. Children are...
Microdiskectomy: Back Surgery To Go
Back surgery patients who used to remain in the hospital for five to six days are now walking out within hours after the operation. This day surgery is being performed at Baylor College of...
My Aching Back – Doctor’s Interview
Why is chronic back or leg pain so debilitating? Dr. Faller: Primarily because it’s a long-term problem. It’s something that is, in many cases, not going to get better. The people who experience it...
DHEA for Lupus
Lupus, it’s called an autoimmune disorder. It causes inflammation of various parts of the body including skin, joints, blood and major organs. Doctors say more people have lupus than AIDS, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis,...
Types of Headaches
What is a migraine? A true migraine headache is one-sided, pounding, aching and can cause nausea and vomiting. Patients with migraine usually avoid bright lights, which we call photophobia, and avoid sound, which we...
Vertigo Treatment
Have you ever felt unsteady and lightheaded for no apparent reason? You could be experiencing vertigo. It’s a common disorder affecting 20-percent of the population. Researchers have come up with some simple exercises to...
Inner Ear And Vertigo Q&A
Explain a little about the inner ear and balance problems. In the inner ear, there is the hearing portion and the balance portion and the problem is in the balance portion. The structure is...
Time to Treat Global Chronic Disease
Experts are calling for global health-system reforms. They say the rising global burden of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, needs a coordinated effort from policy makers, advocates and health professionals....
Combo May Help Multiple Sclerosis Patients
A new study shows adding a new medication to the standard treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may help better control the disease. Doctors at the University of Baltimore and Brown University in Rhode Island...
Preventing Hearing Loss
It can happen overnight. You go to bed with normal hearing and wake up nearly deaf. Within weeks you may lose your hearing altogether. There is no cure for autoimmune inner ear disease, but...
Removing Lung Clots
Doctors say nearly 600,000 lung clots are diagnosed each year in patients. The symptoms include shortness of breath and leg swelling. Many patients go untreated, but a new procedure can help turn their lives...
Migraine Relief
Some 23 million Americans suffer from migraines. They can be disabling and not easily cured. A approved drug may provide relief. A mother of four, Sharon suffered from migraine headaches for 18 years. “I...
Fibromyalgia Pain Relief
Fibromyalgia affects about 6 million Americans, most of them women. For many, the pain can be unbearable. Treatments vary from person to person, and some find no relief with treatments currently available. Now a...
Fibrosis Can Be Reversed and Cured
A new discovery could lead to the first cure for cirrhosis of the liver. San Diego researchers have proven liver fibrosis can be stopped and reversed in mice. This could help scientists develop new...
Understanding Liver Disease in the Obese
A new study looks at what is associated with a form of fatty liver disease that can lead to advanced liver disease. For the study, researchers looked at the livers of patients undergoing gastric...
Conventional Treatments for Osteoporosis
In the past, the usual recommendation for preventing and treating osteoporosis has been hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In the USA, pre-menopausal women can still use HRT (or HT, hormone therapy) to prevent osteoporosis. However,...
Diagnosing Osteoporosis
As always, the more information you have, the easier it is to make informed choices about what you need to do to keep yourself healthy and well. Checking for the risk of osteoporosis is...
Your Pain Tolerance
Childbirth. Menstrual cramps. Migraines. If you were born with XX chromosomes, you’re probably well acquainted with all kinds of discomfort. Women are more likely to suffer chronic pain than men are, thanks in part...
Eating Disorders: A Campus Concern
Although eating disorders are not limited to any particular age group of women, they are certainly more prevalent among college-aged women. Women who suffer from eating disorders have an intense fear of gaining weight...
Hypnosis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Doctor’s Interview
What is IBS and how many people does it attack? IBS is a set of symptoms that affects about fifteen percent of the population. It involves primarily pain and discomfort in the abdomen that...
Taming Bladder Pain Q&A
You said you had about 350 patients who suffer from interstitial cystitis. So this isn’t really a rare disorder, but is it difficult to diagnose? Dr. Hurm: It really is difficult to diagnose for...
Digestive Disorders
The National Institutes of health reports that 60 million to 70 million people in the u.s. are affected by digestive disorders each year, resulting in $141.8 billion in medical costs. Up to 25 percent...
Autoimmune Diseases
Your immune system is supposed to respond to injury, infection, and other irritation by inflaming and thus protecting the affected area. It does this with the release of antibodies, which combat the problem. The...