Infant Diarrhea
It isn’t the most pleasant subject to discuss, but it’s so common, it costs $400 million a year to treat. Diarrhea. When the sufferer is a child, it’s even more serious … sometimes even...
Monthly Archive: May 2011
Voice Wellness
Hoarseness after talking all-day or cheering at a sporting event is a common sign of vocal chord fatigue. Most of the time it goes away, but if you continue to stress your voice, you...
Could You Have Whooping Cough?
Whooping cough. The term conjures up images of poor, sick children making the characteristic whoop as they struggle to bring air into their sick lungs. While this image may once have been accurate, the...
Cough Medicine may not be Helpful
A study shows cough medicines may not be effective for patients with acute cough. Over-the-counter cough medicines are commonly used as a first line treatment in patients with acute cough. Researchers from the University...
Wipe Out Dust Mites
You might or might not know this, but dust mites can trigger allergies and asthma. The eight-legged creatures from the spider family live in our homes and feed on skin cells we leave behind....
Dangers of Dirty Air
Air pollution may do more than smell and make you cough; it may also damage blood vessels. For the first time, researchers say they are able to confirm a correlation between air pollution and...
Your Life’s Breath
Asthma can cause discomfort, disruption, and even life-threatening attacks. May is Asthma Awareness Month; if you or someone you know has asthma, it’s a good reminder to examine triggers and treatments. While there is...
Blooming Good Food
We’ve all heard that “April showers bring May flowers.” What better time than during this abundance of flora to explore the delicious, nutritious delights of edible flowers From varieties such as impatiens and daylilies...
Obstructive Lung Disease and Death
A long-term study shows people with chronic lung disease are at a higher risk for early death. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an umbrella term used to describe airflow obstruction that is associated mainly...
Steroid Helps Patients Regain Weight
An anabolic steroid show success helping seriously ill and injured people gain weight and restore muscle mass. Two studies presented at CHEST 2002, the 68th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians,...
Low Weight and Lung Disease
Does severe lung disease cause you to lose weight or is low weight a risk factor for developing the lung disease? Doctors around the United States recently set out to understand the connection between...
Kid Have a Stomachache? It’s Probably Constipation
Children who complain of acute or chronic abdominal pain are most likely to be suffering from constipation. Unfortunately, many doctors fail to identify the problem because they don’t do the right tests. Those findings...
Cold Sores
According to researchers, about 80 percent of us have had a cold sore at one time or another. They’re ugly, they sting and they can ruin a date. People try everything to get rid...
Treating Cholera
A commonly used antibiotic may be part of the answer to preventing 5,000 deaths annually from cholera. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cholera is a major public-health problem around the world. Children are...
Microdiskectomy: Back Surgery To Go
Back surgery patients who used to remain in the hospital for five to six days are now walking out within hours after the operation. This day surgery is being performed at Baylor College of...
My Aching Back – Doctor’s Interview
Why is chronic back or leg pain so debilitating? Dr. Faller: Primarily because it’s a long-term problem. It’s something that is, in many cases, not going to get better. The people who experience it...
Unwanted Hair Growth Linked to Medical Condition
Women in their child-bearing years who have even minimal amounts of hair in male-type patterns may have an underlying medical condition, according to a new study. It is known that excess hair growth in...
New Skin Patch May be Woman’s Viagra
For years, Viagra has been a man’s answer to sexual dysfunction later in life. However, despite the success of this drug for men, there currently are no treatment methods for women with this same...
DHEA for Lupus
Lupus, it’s called an autoimmune disorder. It causes inflammation of various parts of the body including skin, joints, blood and major organs. Doctors say more people have lupus than AIDS, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis,...
Battling Baldness
Just pop a pill and grow hair. Sound too good to be true? Maybe not. There’s a new pill that may do just that for some men. With more than 40 million American men...
Types of Headaches
What is a migraine? A true migraine headache is one-sided, pounding, aching and can cause nausea and vomiting. Patients with migraine usually avoid bright lights, which we call photophobia, and avoid sound, which we...
Vertigo Treatment
Have you ever felt unsteady and lightheaded for no apparent reason? You could be experiencing vertigo. It’s a common disorder affecting 20-percent of the population. Researchers have come up with some simple exercises to...
Inner Ear And Vertigo Q&A
Explain a little about the inner ear and balance problems. In the inner ear, there is the hearing portion and the balance portion and the problem is in the balance portion. The structure is...
Foot Fancy
More and more we hear how modern medicine works hand in hand with ancient science to help heal the body. While the ancient methods may seem far-fetched, they have a host of supporters. This...