Are You Fat?

The image of "obesity" often conjures up people who can barely fit through a doorway or who always require two airline seats.

Women's Health Info in Your Pocket

Your doctor just told you that you're at risk for osteoporosis. He steps out for a moment, and you wish you could quickly look it up for a summary of the condition. Now you can.

Does Neurofeedback really work?

Scientist have made amazing progress measuring the electrical fields of the brain, especially in recent decades. Does medical science now know enough to be able to use that knowledge to change the brain's electrical state, so that patients with medical conditions benefit? For the better part of a century, researchers and clinicians have been able to put sensors on a patient's scalp to measure how the brain's 100 billion neurons generate electrical fields. The patterns produced when these fields are recorded by the sensors as waves are known as an electroencephalogram, or EEG. Th...

Are You Taking an Off-Label Medication?

Off-label drug use happens when a drug is used for a condition for which it does not have approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Doctors may give an off-label prescription for many reasons.

Frontiers in Lung Cancer

In the final installment of our series on lung cancer, we continue our conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts.

Platelet Inhibitor No Match for Plavix

Doctors are always looking to help patients with the latest technology and newest medications. But sometimes, the tried and true method may be the best way to go for heart attack patients.

Signs of Kidney Disease Severity

As kidney disease gets worse, patients can develop serious health problems, like kidney failure. If doctors and patients know that disease is progressing, they can take steps to stop dangerous or deadly problems.

Care Giver Coping May Affect Dementia

Caring for a loved one with dementia can be stressful. The way you cope with that stress may affect the way your loved one’s dementia changes over time.

Fitness Now Improves Life Later

Higher fitness levels bring lots of benefits to individuals in the now. It helps keep away illnesses and makes the body strong. And fitness also has an effect way down the road by adding years to life, but its quality had been in question.

Is H1N1 More Dangerous Than Flu?

Think back to the panic around swine flu in 2009, the first time H1N1 appeared on the scene. Did you think it was more deadly than the normal, run-of-the-mill flu?