45 studies look at weight gain
LOS ANGELES — People who blame their genes for weight problems are probably justified in doing so, to some extent. Numerous studies present...
It backs testing women in 40s
A new study from Sweden is stirring fresh debate over whether women in their 40s should get mammograms. It suggests the breast cancer screen...
Mary Jo Niles, a registered nurse and director of Women's Health Services for Grove City Medical Center, puts up a breast cancer awareness display in the front lawn of t...
Long-term heat exposure is cause
CHICAGO — Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethin...
Studies show activity can ease symptoms
CHICAGO — On a recent Wednesday night, Cindy Gerstner, 42, strapped her feet into a rowing machine and began gliding back and fort...
Carol Kivler knows she is not alone.
First diagnosed with a mental illness in 1990, Kivler, 59, suffers from periodic acute bouts of medication-resistant depression that...
Cindy Trowbridge, associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Texas at Arlington, offers this advice about stretching:
"We're controlled by neural networks t...
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Melissa Sietsma suddenly fell silent, her voice trailing off and hanging softly over the phone line.
The Fair Lawn, N.J., native had been recounting t...
Program lifts spirits, boosts self-image
The effects of cancer treatment can be devastating, and for many patients, changes in their appearance are almost as difficult to...
Taking hormone-blocking pills for a few months before breast cancer surgery can shrink tumors and allow many women to have just the lump removed instead of the whole bre...
