This is turning out to be a pretty tough century. Or at least so far. The recent earthquake-like shocks in the economy have impacted...

Trigger points are persistent, localized muscle spasms that can cause a great deal of pain. Trigger points alone may be responsible for ...

Is it possible that ups and downs with respect to our health and well-being are yet another reflection of the ebb and flow of all things?...

Most of us are procrastinators. We let things go until the last minute. Papers, magazines, and books pile up on the desk until the...

We're in the middle of several deadly epidemics in the United States. Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are affecting more and more...

Since mid-Fall TV commercials have been trumpeting the horrors of the "flu season". "It's never too soon to begin fighting this year's...

Health care breakthroughs are big business. We know this because such news is reported in the Business Section of newspapers and...

We all know some people who get sick all the time. They're just getting over one thing when here comes the next round of illness. We...

Like Scylla and Charybdis, the twin sea monsters of Greek mythology, diabetes and obesity are the twin medical monsters confronting...

What is your lifestyle? Not whether you are married or where you live, but rather, how are you choosing to live your life? What choices ...

The worldwide type 2 diabetes epidemic has been thoroughly documented.1,2 Yet despite extensive study and analysis, there has been...

American kids are under tremendous pressure to perform well in school. Every year they're required to take more and more standardized ...

Kids can get checked, too. Do kids need regular blood pressure check-ups or regular tests of their blood glucose levels? Probably not -...

Kids get hurt all the time. They're running, they're jumping, they're crashing into things. Kids want to have fun, and when they play,...

Windows and Mac users actually do have one thing in common - computer ergonomics issues, namely, pain.1,2 Beyond the usual hardware and...

In a classic scene in the classic 1984 movie Starman, the extraterrestrial Jeff Bridges tells the human Karen Allen that, yes, he does...

You're pregnant! Congratulations! Your body's changing-wondrously, marvelously. One unexpected and unwelcome change may be lower back...

Thirty-five year-old Tracy had tried everything: monitoring her cycles through body temperature, over-the-counter fertility predictors ...

The average age of Americans is increasing year-by-year. Approximately 77 million babies were born in the United States during the boom...

Bob Barker, beloved host of The Price Is Right, recently made headlines by announcing his retirement after 35 years. "Barker ...