Knee injuries can be severe enough to sideline even the most well-trained athletes and women athletes seem especially prone to a type of noncontact knee injury caused by sudden stops, turns, or jumps.  The US Centers for Disease Control and…

Groin injuries are a classic schtick when it comes to slapstick comedy but when they come to a young boy’s real injury, it’s just not a laughing matter, according to Dr. Anthony Atala.  Atala has just released some recommendations for…

Headlines everywhere scream of the obesity epidemic jeopardizing our kids’ health and happiness during the time in life they should be the most care free.  Children with excess pounds usually don’t have to worry about the ill effects of too…

That’s the question behind a study recently conducted at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. And the evidence is overwhelming that people who think they are taking performance-enhancing drugs think their performance is actually enhanced as a…

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 it where only the finest athletes…

The findings of a recently conducted study seem to indicate that taking some common over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers may improve muscle mass when taken during a weight-training program. The study was conducted with the elderly in mind but the beneficial…

Just as most of the rest of us have, two doctors at the University of Pennsylvania have always heard that we need to drink eight glasses containing eight ounces of water every day for optimum health, a theory often dubbed…

This certainly seems to be the case, at least under certain circumstances, according to a review of dozens of studies devised to compare the performance enhancing effects of human growth hormone (HGH) against athletes who were not given the so-called…

Med Headlines - Football is a hard-hitting game that often involves hard hits to the helmet. Traditional wisdom says such hits to the head are more likely to cause concussions when the impact is of a certain magnitude or location.

However,…