If you're pregnant, your dental health can affect your babies well-being. This may sound of the wall but what goes in your mouth that is your nutrition can help with your babies nutrition. If you have bad teeth, you are more likely not to eat a well-balanced diet. If you [...]

Melanoma is much more rare than other skin cancers such as basal cell and squamous skin cancers. Unfortunately it is much more deadly than any skin cancer. It is estimated that about 16,000 Americans each year die from melanoma. By far the greatest but not the only risk is sun [...]

Wouldn't it be great if all diseases presented exactly the way that they are described in medical textbooks? In medicine we call this a classical presentation. Unfortunately for many if not most diseases the most common presentation is not that way. The problem comes when patient ignore symptoms because they [...]

It is truly important that you take all medication exactly as prescribed by your doctor. What if you go to say a specialist and he or she prescribes another medication? Be sure to let the specialist know what other medications you are taking. This is because there are many, many [...]

Sharing medications might at first seem like a good idea. After all, medications especially prescription ones, are expensive and you need to see a doctor first to even get the medication. And it turns out that about 37% of Americans do in fact share prescription medications. Without a doubt this [...]

Early bedtimes for young kids,according to a recent study, decreases the risk of obesity later in life. About 17% of American children are obese. And obesity in childhood greatly increases the chance of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer. In the study it was found that 4 year [...]

Do you have to be an exercise fanatic to be healthy? Well a recent published peer reviewed study (which in other words means that its findings can be taken seriously) revealed that no you don't Exercising as little as two days a week reduced the risk of dying, getting cancer [...]

Governments all over the world have enacted laws to try to limit the number of smokers. Not only smokers are at risk, but also those who live near smokers and thus are exposed to the harmful effects of passive smoking or smoke exposure. Children, who of course have no choice [...]

There's been some recent noise about vaccines and autism. There is concern about the preservative Thiomeresal being unhealthy for newborns and leading to autism. While it true that the number of new autism cases have increased, so too have many other conditions affecting kids including asthma and ADHD. Did vaccines [...]

It's about that time of year where viral infections become more common. It's not the cold that causes the infections; rather the cold causes people to stay inside more often. Inside we are closer together and thus more likely to transmit infection. One infection which is fairly common among younger [...]