NEW YORK — The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever, 3%, U.S. health officials said Thursday. More parents are questioning routine childhood vaccinations that they used to automatically accept, an effect of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As U.S. doctors scale back their use of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a trendy psychedelic therapy. Prescriptions for ketamine have soared in recent years, driven by for-profit ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a serious chronic (long term) medical disease that affects the tissue surrounding the small air sacs in our lungs, known as alveoli. When our lungs are healthy, oxygen easily passes through the walls of the air sacs, and on into the blood. With pulmonary fibrosis, the ...

Foot pain is something most of us experience at some point in our lives. Depending on which study is quoted, the vast majority of Americans have discomfort originating from this vital body part, some claiming 9 out of every 10 people do, at some point. Heel pain is likely the most publicized ...

For Joe, the twitching came on suddenly, surprisingly, shockingly, and in his own words, “out of the clear blue sky.” It seemed as if his left shoulder and the left side of his face had acquired a life of their own and moved of their own volition. The twitching lasted for a minute or two ...

Americans are barraged with images of skinny models and muscle bound men, from the glamour magazines to TV commercials, we are held to an impossible standard. This is a message oft repeated: to be physically attractive and healthy, an individual must eat healthy foods and engage in 2 and a half ...