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Avoid Common Cycling Injuries
But caution often goes out the window as motorists, distracted by smartphones or not fully alert, collide with cyclists. The result can be fatal even...
April 4, 2014 / 3 min read
Spinal Cord ‘Pacemaker’ Reduces Chronic Back Pain
Fortunately, there is a device that helps the back override pain. Doctors sometimes refer to this device as a “pacemaker for the spine.” Although it...
April 2, 2014 / 3 min read
De-Mystifying Common Health Myths
Common health myths can run in families and across cultures for generations. Most primary doctors and family practice physicians are quite familiar with many of...
April 1, 2014 / 4 min read
Vital Facts on Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary hypertension is a specific type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries leading from the heart to the lungs. It is different from...
March 24, 2014 / 2 min read
Men with 'Low T': Know Your Heart...
The media campaign by drug companies is one factor that is helping drive increased diagnoses of low testosterone. Also fueling this trend is an aging...
March 19, 2014 / 3 min read
Football Helmets Offer Little Protection from Concussions
Football helmets only reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury by 20 percent, compared to not wearing a helmet, according to preliminary results of a...
March 14, 2014 / 2 min read
New Stroke Guidelines for Women
To improve awareness among women and physicians, guidelines have been specifically created for the first time to better help prevent stroke in women.
March 7, 2014 / 2 min read
Flu Hitting More Younger Adults, Middle-Aged, CDC...
An estimated 60 percent of U.S. deaths from influenza this season were in people 24 to 64 years old, compared with 18 percent last season,...
February 21, 2014 / 2 min read
Dementia May Signal Pneumonia in Elderly
More frequently, elderly patients in the 70s, 80s and older are seeing their doctors and finding out that fresh episodes of disorientation are actually caused...
February 14, 2014 / 2 min read
50 Years Later: Anti-Smoking Campaign Still Saving...
But 50 years after that landmark report, too many Americans, especially younger people, are lighting up, ignoring stern public service announcements on TV and endless...
February 10, 2014 / 3 min read