A look at heart failure
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The term “heart failure” is really kind of scary. The word failure means breaking down, not functioning or collapse.
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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
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Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is another one of those ailments that can sneak upon you with no sign or symptom.
Read MoreTop 12 tips to relieve IBS symptoms
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an intestinal disorder causing pain in the belly, gas, bloating, cramping, diarrhea, and constipation. Up to 1 in 5 Americans have chronic IBS with symptoms lasting for years or a lifetime.
Read More8 signs signaling a thyroid problem
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When our thyroid functions normally, life is good. But when it malfunctions, suddenly unusual symptoms begin occurring disrupting our normal pattern.
Read MoreA Closer Look at Uveitis
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Uveitis typically hits people between the ages of 30 and 50, but it has been known to affect children as well.
Read MoreTreating Hardening of the Arteries: Smaller is Better
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Cardiovascular disease kills more people each year than cancer. Many of these deaths are attributed to atherosclerosis, which is best viewed as congestion along the highways of your blood vessels.
Read MoreUnderstanding Hepatitis A to C
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Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver brought about by drug use, alcohol use, sexual contact with an infected person, or certain medical conditions.
Read MorePreventing a poison ivy, oak or sumac rash
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If you’ve never had the itchy, oozing, bubbly rash of poison ivy, oak or sumac, consider yourself very lucky.
Read MoreSuddenly Feeling Woozy? Here's Why.
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Do you feel suddenly light-headed, perhaps even faint, when you stand up from sitting or lying down? If so, you likely have a form of low blood pressure known as orthostatic hypotension.
Read MoreUnderstanding C. Diff
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C. diff is a bacterium that can cause symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening inflammation of the colon.
Read MoreGangrene - tissue death!
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If you had a nickel every time a character was wounded in a film or TV show and another character fretted about acting fast “before gangrene sets in” you'd be rich.
Read MoreFaces of folliculitis
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You may have heard them described as hot tub rash, razor bumps and barber's itch, but they're all different faces of folliculitis.
Read MoreStrokes increase sharply in young adults
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A study in the Journal of the American Heart Association has found hospitalizations for the most common stroke, ischemic stroke, increased sharply by 44 percent in young adults ages 25 to 44.
Read MoreDiabetic retinopathy – Focusing on a growing issue
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The prevalence of diabetes in the Unites States has grown to around 29.3 million Americans or 9.5% of the population with this serious condition.
Read MoreThe Walking Wounded: Osteoarthritis
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The most common form of arthritis is also among the most painful and crippling. Osteoarthritis, affecting millions of people worldwide, occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down over time.
Read MoreLearning about Fungal Meningitis
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Meningitis is a general term for swelling of the protective membranes that cover the brain and spine.
Read MorePeritonitis: Painful and Life-Threatening
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Peritonitis is a particularly painful inflammation of the peritoneum, which is the membrane that lines the inner abdominal wall and covers the organs within your abdomen.
Read MoreHow To Evaluate Thyroid Nodules
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Thyroid nodules are first assessed using fine needle aspiration cytology, a procedure to remove thyroid cells for examination.
Read MoreGut Feelings: Everything Impacts our Intestines
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Up until now we have been pretty much treating our intestinal bacteria as something we needed to nurture and care for through consumption of some rather specialized foods.
Read MoreLegionnaires Disease: Not That Exotic
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You have probably hear of Legionnaires' disease more than other recently-discovered diseases due to the media frenzy surrounding various “outbreaks.”
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