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Today's Medicine
Earaches are common during childhood, but a vaccine can ease the pain for thousands of kids.
The most effective way to lower your dental bills is to take care of your teeth, and to make sure your children do the same.
Where can you as a parent turn to for the facts about vaccine safety? The first place to go is your child's doctor.
A personal health record is a documentation of your medical history and care. Although health care providers routinely keep such medical records, you can create your own record, and records for other family members.
When you feel chest pain from blocked arteries, you might see an interventional cardiologist for treatment.
Spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spinal canal narrows and pinches the nerves, resulting in back and leg pain.
Doctors usually don't look inside your nose unless they have a specific reason. Usually, they are looking for an infection or allergy. Sometimes, they're looking for other sources of your breathing problem, such as a deviated septum, the term doctors use to describe a misalignment of the cartilage that runs down the center of your nose.
The two blood pressure numbers indicate how much pressure builds up in the arteries as the heart beats and between beats.
If having surgery makes you nervous, imagine how it can seem for a child. By helping the youngster anticipate and face those fears, you can ease the trauma and smooth the way for a quicker, easier recovery.
A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast. It can find changes in the breast when a lump is too small for you or your doctor to feel.
Experts recommend that all herbal supplements be stopped two to three weeks before surgery. That's because these herbs can have side effects that could make surgery more dangerous for you.
Many factors are used to determine the need for joint replacement surgery. Some of the factors that you and your doctor will consider are the extent and nature of the damage to the joint in question.
Always read the label. All OTC medicine labels have detailed usage and warning information to help you choose and use the products.
If your doctor recommends a hearing aid, these suggestions can help you determine which kind will suit you best.
Deciding when and how to stop taking several popular antidepressants is something you should always discuss with your health care provider.
These medications are life-giving and powerful. It's important to take them just as your doctor has prescribed.
This list of health care professionals, which excludes doctors, can help you understand the wide array of people called upon to render care.
Many people worry about having their large bowel examined with a colonoscope. While anxiety is normal, the colonoscope is an amazing instrument that gives gastroenterologists like me a very close view of the large bowel, also called the colon.
A cataract is a clouding of the eye's lens, a clear, soft structure behind the pupil that works much like a camera lens. The top cause of cataracts is aging. In fact, more people over 70 have cataracts than not.
Few tests can match the routine urine analysis for telling your doctor what's going on inside your body.
Did you know that electrical currents flow throughout your body? Because the strongest of these travels through your heart, doctors are able to monitor your heart by placing electrical sensors on the surface of your skin. They do this by giving you an electrocardiogram -- abbreviated either ECG or EKG (from the original German spelling of the word).
When your doctor presses on your abdomen, he or she is feeling to see if any major internal organs are enlarged or tender, making them painful to touch, which could indicate disease.
You probably don't enjoy giving a blood sample, but it's an important part of a physical exam. From a small sample of your blood, your health care provider can order scores of tests.
Your doctor's stethoscope is a simple device that gives him or her crucial information about your heart.
The drops enable ophthalmologists to get a far better look at the tiny, complicated world inside your eyes.
Diabetes affects the body in many complex ways, and having a team to help you stay as healthy and vital as possible, for as long as possible, is key.
No matter what form of arthritis you have, your role as part of your health care team can make the difference in how well you function with pain, stiffness or inflammation.
An entire team of health care experts is on hand to help people with asthma manage their symptoms and continue to live normal, active lives.
Having a child with diabetes can be overwhelming. Fortunately, a team of experts can guide you now and in the years to come.
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