Pregnancy is the time when you have most control over your child’s health -  and it’s a time when many women start to seriously seek out organic foods and produce. Grocers typically do a good job of highlighting the …

Many patients balk at the prospect of taking cholesterol lowering medications. The benefits, according to studies, are profound, but worries persist about the ill effects. Many patients report muscle aches, fatigue, and even memory loss. …

Women, who carry the gene mutation BRCA, may be faced with the decision of having mastectomy to avoid developing breast cancer. According to Dutch researchers, presenting at the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference in Berlin, …

You’ve heard it time and again. Somebody tells you that you look just like so and so, and you eek out the standard reply: “Well, they say everyone has a twin.”
Well, if you’re a seemingly …

Scientists have found that taking Ibuprofen may ward off the development of Alzheimer’s disease. According to a team of investigators at Boston University School of Medicine, people who took Ibuprofen long term, specifically more than …

A lot of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) feel like they’ve run a marathon after picking up a few groceries, so now imagine working against ME/CFS, complete with post-exertional malaise, to make …

We all know that “stressed out” feeling. Too much to do. Too little time.
And, we know intuitively that stress is not healthy.
But we also know that some people seem to endure endless stressful events in …

Amidst the spring shower of sunscreen advertisements, we forget there are many ways to lower our risk of developing skin cancer. What we eat can have an impact on whether we will ever have to …

The Centers for Disease Control issued a statement that indicated 20 percent of our 2-year-olds are under-vaccinated. ABC News and others reported on the announcement, saying that kids are missing vaccines but, also, that they …

This tidbit of information probably wouldn’t surprise many of us who have fibromyalgia (FMS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) – according to a special edition of The American Journal of Medicine, doctors misdiagnose …