Health Care
Did you know that women are at higher risk for a variety of eye diseases?
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It isn’t possible to die from embarrassment—unless that embarrassment keeps patients from getting checked for melanoma.
Summer is rapidly approaching. Soon, kids will be out of school, barbecues will sizzle, and temperatures will climb. In health care, we refer to summer as “trauma season.”
For women, lots of not-so-pleasant reproductive problems affect your daily life. But what if you have a tilted uterus? Should you worry?
Nutrition-wise, it takes more than carrots to contribute to healthy eyes
With summer nearly upon us, you're probably getting ready to break out your sandals and flip flops.
Popular descriptions of modern summer skin usually include terms such as “golden” or “sun-kissed.” But those phrases would most likely make your great-grandmother shudder.
Every 43 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a heart attack. And according to a new study, half of them don’t even know it. Instead, they suffer what are known as silent heart attacks.
From month to month and year to year, the tissue in your breasts change. Some of these changes could be breast lumps. How much should you worry about these? And when should you get checked out?
The first penis transplant in the U.S. is making headlines. However, the advancement does not mean that penis transplants soon will be commonplace.
The front windshield of your car blocks most of the UVA and UVB radiation coming from the sun, but the driver’s side window may not be pulling its weight.
Probiotics are big business. Sales of products with the live microorganisms are expected to top $10 billion a year by 2018.
It's time to pick out the perfect shades. How to do it.
Electronic cigarettes are exposing young children in the United States to dangerous levels of nicotine. A new study in the journal Pediatrics found the number of poison control cases involving children swallowing the de...
Hepatitis C is a disease of the liver. It kills thousands of people each year. It doesn't have to.
Millions of prescriptions are written for antibiotics each year and a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows nearly a third of them are unwarranted.
Playgrounds are supposed to be safer than ever. So why are more head injuries being reported?
The first Monday in May every year is known as Melanoma Monday – a day to spread awareness of the deadliest form of skin cancer.
