Imagine this: On a Saturday night, a 70 year-old man who is vacationing in a small resort town feels weakness in his leg and starts slurring his speech. An ambulance rushes him to the nearest community hospital, where an emergency room doctor...
For generations, people dutifully obeyed medical authority-the doctor was always right. Then, medical consumers were urged to take control of their own...
Don't overlook your eyes when you're thinking about ultraviolet (UV) protection while spending time outdoors, experts say. Overexposure...
People with a family history of shingles may have increased susceptibility to the disease, say researchers at the University of Texas Medical...
The discovery last fall that toddlers toys were causing lead toxicity called attention to a problem many people thought was behind us....
Injuries related to use of bunk beds should be a concern for young adults, as well as small children, a new study...
Small pet turtles were to blame for 103 cases of salmonella infection in the second half of 2007, mostly in young children,...
This is the story of a little boy who swallowed a magnet and then wound up in 1 the hospital Actually, Braden...
Environmental health organizations in the United States and Canada are calling for a ban on the use of the chemical bisphenol A...
For nearly one out of every three Americans, chronic illness and/or pain is a way 1 of life. Despite medical care,...
Picking up a heavy box, you get a sudden stab of pain in your lower back-and now all you feel like doing...
Using the word headache to describe a migraine is like referring to the space shuttle as an airplane. Technically, migraines are headaches,...