Next week, the annual Christmas Holiday will be celebrated throughout the world. It is time when many families and friends will get together as 2024 winds down to the end of the year. It gives us a time to reflect on this past year and look forward to 2025. As we all know, in our great ...

Modern medicine has made many advances benefitting our health and wellbeing. Our understanding of disease has progressed tremendously, more so in some fields than others. An examination of life expectancy is evidence of these advances. Prior to the development of antibiotics, before we knew ...

Remember some of the old doctor shows, there have been quite a few over the years. The patient would lie down on the exam table and the physician would place their hands on the individual’s belly to palpate their “insides,” amounting to feeling around. Of course, this was always followed ...

This is the third and last in a series of articles about research studies concerning kidney stones. My goal hasn’t been to merely describe the latest research about the prevention and treatment of kidney stones, but to show how researchers and doctors try to simplify their management ...

NEW YORK — Rhonda James was skeptical when her husband ordered a weighted blanket for her online. But five minutes after she wrapped it around her body, she zonked out. “It felt like a really big hug,” said James, a banker in Charleston, South Carolina. As outside temperatures grow ...

Vitamin C, also known as L-ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and is available as a vitamin supplement. Unlike most animals, we humans are not able to synthesize vitamin C internally, so it is an essential part of our daily diet. ...