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I tried this year, I really did. I amped up my Vitamin C intake through supplements, eating broccoli and strawberries, but still ended up with an annoying head cold. I also try very hard to take ...

My voice tends to sound gravelly or warbling when I'm tired or fatigued. Why is this? Is there anything I can do to prevent it on those nights when I get less than five or six hours of sleep?

A friend of mine recently got a nasty case of what I would call ringworms on the back of her calf. She said she's had the same two lesions for about a year and can't recall how she got them. She ...

We've all had the common cold and some of us even suffer from autoimmune disease, but did you know these were considered mysterious? Check out this multimedia presentation on mysterious ...

An experimental treatment for depression is reportedly giving hope to patients who suffer from its most severe form. Deep brain stimulation (or DBS) in which the brain is stimulated with ...

In a meeting last week, Steve Jobs, who's a survivor of pancreatic cancer, looks like he lost some weight, and his new gaunt appearance apparently has some people talking. Given his role in the ...

Have you ever given your doctor or specialist a gift to say thank you for the care or advice they've provided? How was it received? Should patients give gifts if they've already paid for ...

It's hard to separate emotions from the body and what's more important is that you communicate what you're feeling with your doctor if you're feeling ill. According to familydoctor.org, this is ...

I have a friend who is 21 years old, living in Los Angeles and looking for a doctor who specializes in endometriosis. Her case is pretty severe and she's in and out of the hospital pretty ...

Over the weekend, a friend of mine was talking about tonsil stones -- essentially a white build up on the tonsil that can lead to some pretty foul breath. She was saying she has removed hers with ...

So, I found out about this term -- HSP or Highly Sensitive People a few days ago when I was chatting with a friend about her son heading off to Kindergarten. She said she was worried about how he ...

NPR has a great multimedia presentation on different countries and their approaches to healthcare. The presentation boasts a pretty cool tool that allows you to evaluate life expectancy based on ...

This story out of India makes me wonder how old it too old for children? One of the twins was apparently conceived through in vitro ...

I have relatively pale skin and am looking for a reliable sunscreen. I came across this link yesterday and found that my stand-by products may not be giving me the protection I need. Has anyone ...

For the past few mornings, I've been working in a 45-minute walk before I head into work. I've dubbed this time "Big Dog Hour" because all my neighbors with dogs 100 pounds or more seem to be out ...

So, we've all heard of the superfoods -- foods packed with so much nutrition, you'd be foolish to reach past them and grab a handful of Doritos. And while most of us seem to have incorporated some ...

Great piece written by a breast cancer survivor that discusses how stress can manifest itself physically especially in women. (Source: New York Times) The article was apparently inspired by a sign ...

Great article out of the Wall Street Journal today that says more Americans are delaying health care because of costs. "About 20% of the respondents in a 2007 survey of 18,000 people said that ...

First it was MRSA – known to the medical world as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that had outwitted modern medicine by creeping through hospitals and other healthcare settings, ...

So, this was a new one to me Empathy Deficit Disorder or EDD. According to one psychologist, the condition is rampant among Americans. Douglas LaBier, Ph.D., director and founder of the ...

Here's a couple of tips from Harvard on how to keep your hands pain free. And let's face it, most of us don't think about them until they hurt... It’s a good idea to have an ergonomic ...

Fortunately, I don't fall into the category of having a selfish spouse but If you check off a vast majority of the boxes on this list, the odds are your favor that you are on treacherous ...

Not sure if you caught this story about how the American Medical Association is smoking mad about the new Hulk movie where the hero's nemesis smokes cigars in nearly every scene of the ...

Here's a wonderful story of hope and what can be accomplished through modern medicine. This child's first “birth” was about six months into Keri McCartney’s pregnancy, when surgeons at Texas ...

Check out this fascinating article about sarcasm and how the ability to detect sarcasm develops in the brain ... Here's an excerpt ... "The smirking put-down that buries its barb by stating ...