Screening available during October
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Because of that, Butler Memorial Hospital will join in the fight against breast cancer by off...
Doctors also fail to discuss meds
CHICAGO — Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly when th...
At least 25 percent of Americans suffer from back pain, according to recent national surveys. Many have strained muscles or ligaments. Others have damaged their nerves, ...
Two seemingly contradictory aspects of American life have contributed to an increase in knee problems: an increasing number of participants in recreational sports and an...
ATLANTA — After waking up one night in sheets teeming with tiny bugs, Josh Benton couldn't sleep for months and kept a flashlight and can of Raid with him in bed.
"We we...
Restaurants, processed food culprits
When it comes to seasoning food, there's no shortage of salt options.
But when it comes to health, it doesn't matter if it was mined ...
Blood pressure level is lowered
WASHINGTON — Take a slow deep breath, then exhale just as slowly. Can you take fewer than 10 breaths a minute?
Research suggests breathing...
Bone loss is not their top priority
DALLAS — Dr. Laura Scalfano knows the refrain all too well. As a pediatrician, she hears it the loudest from teenagers and young women...
Survey: 66% are overweight
GRAPEVINE, Texas — No one would mistake David Voekel's body for that of Tiger Woods.
When Voekel, 71, teed off recently at the Grapevine Golf C...
AMD treatment available soon
The federal Food and Drug Administration approved Friday the first drug that improves vision in Americans with the most common cause of visio...
