Dangers of Dirty Air
Air pollution may do more than smell and make you cough; it may also damage blood vessels. For the first time, researchers say they are able to confirm a correlation between air pollution and...
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Your Life’s Breath
Asthma can cause discomfort, disruption, and even life-threatening attacks. May is Asthma Awareness Month; if you or someone you know has asthma, it’s a good reminder to examine triggers and treatments. While there is...
Blooming Good Food
We’ve all heard that “April showers bring May flowers.” What better time than during this abundance of flora to explore the delicious, nutritious delights of edible flowers From varieties such as impatiens and daylilies...
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...
Steroid Helps Patients Regain Weight
An anabolic steroid show success helping seriously ill and injured people gain weight and restore muscle mass. Two studies presented at CHEST 2002, the 68th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians,...
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...
Kid Have a Stomachache? It’s Probably Constipation
Children who complain of acute or chronic abdominal pain are most likely to be suffering from constipation. Unfortunately, many doctors fail to identify the problem because they don’t do the right tests. Those findings...
Cold Sores
According to researchers, about 80 percent of us have had a cold sore at one time or another. They’re ugly, they sting and they can ruin a date. People try everything to get rid...
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...
Unwanted Hair Growth Linked to Medical Condition
Women in their child-bearing years who have even minimal amounts of hair in male-type patterns may have an underlying medical condition, according to a new study. It is known that excess hair growth in...
New Skin Patch May be Woman’s Viagra
For years, Viagra has been a man’s answer to sexual dysfunction later in life. However, despite the success of this drug for men, there currently are no treatment methods for women with this same...
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,...
Battling Baldness
Just pop a pill and grow hair. Sound too good to be true? Maybe not. There’s a new pill that may do just that for some men. With more than 40 million American men...
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...
Foot Fancy
More and more we hear how modern medicine works hand in hand with ancient science to help heal the body. While the ancient methods may seem far-fetched, they have a host of supporters. This...
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....
Improving Infant Development
A recent study shows an iron supplement for anemia and treatment for malaria help motor and language development in African children. Anemia, or the occurrence of too few red blood cells in the bloodstream,...
Travel Health
Whether by train or plane or car, millions of Americans are poised to take off on vacations. And for those traveling a long way from home, there’s the nagging worry, “What if I get...
Herb Overview
Research shows herbal therapies are increasing in popularity. In fact, a landmark study in this field in 1997 showed the number of visits to alternative practitioners was estimated to be 629 million. That exceeded...
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...
Zapping Psoriasis
An estimated 6.5 million Americans suffer from psoriasis… a disorder which produces red patches and thick, dry scales on the skin. The unsightly condition can be a source of both emotional and physical discomfort....
Magnetic Chair — Full-Length Doctor’s Interview
What is urgent incontinence, and what causes it? Dr. Galloway: Urgent incontinence is merely leakage that is associated with a feeling that you need to go to the bathroom, but you can’t quite get...
Beating the Years
There’s no need to accept that weight gain, wrinkles, dry skin, and a whole host of other problems are inevitable aspects of aging. Natural healing offers plenty of solutions to beat the clock. Research...
Help Him Take a Hint
Men who think they are too “macho” to seek medical help could be looking for more trouble. A recent survey shows that men who ignore their symptoms end up making more trips to the...
Salt Tablets During Exercise
True or False: You should take salt tablets to replace salt lost during exercise. False! Our bodies are already over-supplied with salt. In fact, the average person’s diet contains 20 to 50 times the...