When you have blood, urine, stool, or laboratory tests, you are being compared to a lot of other people. The laboratory takes thousands of results like yours and plots them...
Haidee went to an anti-aging doctor a couple of years ago and was given human growth hormone (HGH) to prevent aging and improve her endurance. She wanted to continue taking...
Have you ever had the experience of smelling something that causes you to relive an old experience? You actually feel the old feeling as if you were living it again...
“BUT HE HAD THE PNEUMONIA SHOT, HE CAN’T HAVE PNEUMONIA!” said the distraught daughter of an elderly man in a nursing home with a severe case of pneumonia. She had...
Got a headache? Before you reach for that bottle of ibuprofen, there are a few things you should know. Ibuprofen belongs to a class of drugs called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...
There are a hundred million cars on the roads in the United States. Traffic generally moves along very well, as long as everyone obeys the rules. Signs on the side...
Bob came in with left-sided abdominal pain. He didn’t actually come in willingly. His girlfriend dragged him in against his will. He reluctantly consented because he was in so much...
We watch ads on television or the internet that tell us about adult ADHD and wonder, “Do I have ADHD?” See our quiz below to find out! The fact is,...
The heart is just a pump, a muscle. It’s simple. It squeezes the blood inside of it and valves determine how the blood flows through it. Each time the muscle...
“THAT’S MALPRACTICE!” ...The cardiologist was yelling this to me over the phone. Tom, the cardiologist's patient, stopped taking Atorvastatin (Lipitor) because it wasn’t working. Tom initially had a stent placed...
Yesterday I went to visit a friend of mine. But at the house his wife warned me that he was doing a “liver flush” and didn’t want to be disturbed....
Marilyn struggled with constipation and abdominal pain for as long as she could remember. As a child, she remembers having stomachaches. Her doctor diagnosed “irritable bowel syndrome” (IBS) and gave...
