For many adults, the colonoscopy has become a right of passage—a milestone on the path to aging and a shared experience to grimace over. While they don’t top the list of favorite pastimes for [...]
Diabetes and foot problems often go hand in hand—but they don’t have to. “The development of foot problems is not an inevitable consequence of having diabetes,” said Andrew Boulton, chairperson [...]
Infertility is a high price to pay for becoming sexually active. Yet it’s a price many young women end up paying when they unknowingly contract chlamydia. Nearly 7 percent of sexually active [...]
Every three seconds, an adult with osteoporosis breaks a bone. If it sounds like a dramatic statistic, that’s because it is. More than 10 million Americans struggle with osteoporosis and more [...]
Of the 40 million adults who identified as cigarette smokers in 2014, nearly seven in 10 said they want to stop—and for good reason. Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of [...]
In the aftermath of an auto accident, it’s hard to think clearly. Shock and trauma can muddle the brain, while adrenaline makes it hard to discern what’s really happening in our bodies. Each [...]
Our bodies come with a lot of moving parts, and sometimes it’s the smallest ones that can have the biggest impact on our overall health. Take the thyroid, for example. The small, butterfly-shaped [...]
