Diet enthusiasts talk and blog about it all the time鈥攖he Mediterranean diet. It can be difficult to follow, but this diet can help protect against heart disease and improve well-being...
You see it happening but just can鈥檛 get there fast enough to stop it鈥攜our child falls or gets hits in the head. Dr. Cindy Gellner says the first thing to...
Bacteria help build babies' immune systems. During a natural birth, the passage through the birth canal allows mom鈥檚 bacteria to colonize the baby. But what about babies born by cesarean...
With so many tasks vying for your attention, why spend precious time sending out short 140 character Twitter messages? Sara Yeo, PhD (@sarakyeo), assistant professor of communication, explains the advantages...
鈥淎s I look back on medical school and all the happy memories that I have, they all have to do with my classmates.鈥漌ith his fourth year in medical school nearly...
There are many treatment options for pancreatic cancer鈥攆rom resection to radiology to surgical de-bulking. But for some rare types of cancer, like neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas, more dramatic treatments...
Neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors are dangerous because they might be potentially cancerous but can go relatively unnoticed for a long period of time. Dr. Tom Miller speaks with pancreatic transplant surgeon...
Thumb sucking is a common comforting habit in younger children. Because a baby鈥檚 desire to suck their thumb is essential for life, Dr. Cindy Gellner actually discourages trying to stop...
Medical advances have improved outcomes for heart attack patients, even for the sickest patients who undergo cardiogenic shock, a condition where the heart can鈥檛 pump enough blood to meet the...
Traditionally, a liver used for transplant came from a deceased donor. Now, a handful of hospitals in the United States have the ability to do what鈥檚 called a 鈥渓iving donor鈥...
Even though hundreds of thousands of LASIK procedures are performed safely every year, it can still be scary. Dr. Mark Mifflin at the Moran Eye Center finds that when patients...
Your nose runs and you might cough a few times during the day, even though you don鈥檛 have a cold. For otherwise healthy people, those are the immediate effects of...
Many women struggle with Valentine鈥檚 Day expectations: if he loved me, he鈥檇 know what I wanted; if he doesn鈥檛 do something big, he doesn鈥檛 care; surprises are more romantic. If...
鈥淚t is important to keep an open mind and go into each rotation feeling like you鈥檙e going to give it your all.鈥漈he final year of medical school is one filled...
Croaking, creaking, and vocal fry鈥攖hey鈥檙e all different descriptions of a way of talking marked by a low, vibratory sound that often comes at the end of a sentence. You鈥檝e no...
Older adults who are otherwise healthy are at earlier risk for death if they have low blood levels of bicarbonate, a main ingredient in baking soda. Kalani Raphael, MD, an...
