The faster you get rid of belly fat, the faster you will cut your risk of heart disease and cancer. Excess abdominal or belly fat means a higher risk of cancer and heart disease. A [...]

Does an elderly family member have a lower left, sharp pain in the abdomen that hurts upon touching? If so, take this person to the emergency room. This is what happened to my father. The [...]

How safe, or harmful, is it for someone with pneumonia to be around crowds, and just what constitutes a “crowd”? There are two kinds of pneumonia: community and hospital. Community is when the infection is [...]

Is there a such thing as MILD pneumonia in an elderly person, and if so, is this any less of an urgent situation? Ever wonder if it's possible for an elderly person to experience a [...]

Longer telomeres mean a longer healthier life; you can actually lengthen the telomeres in your cells with any one of four natural ways. This has been shown by research from UC San Francisco and the Preventive [...]

A doctor answers this question as well as if low vitamin D levels can make psoriatic arthritis worse. If you suffer from psoriatic arthritis, you may be curious over whether or not vitamin D in [...]

You can have strong wrists and still sprain them, but stronger wrists are less likely to be severely sprained. Here's how to make your wrists stronger. Plus, a strong wrist will recover better from a [...]

The stereotypical reaction of a parent, when they learn their child/teen has been bullying another individual, is to deny their child’s behavior or make excuses for it. And often, this is the case, but another [...]

Do men and the hip adductor & abductor machines belong in the same sentence? Who says that men shouldn’t use the hip adductor and abductor machines? Why are the hip adductor and abductor equipment often [...]

Follow these guidelines to help prevent finger pain related to climbing. Finger pain from climbing can be caused by more than one factor, says Joseph Ciccone, DPT, CSCS, a doctor of physical therapy and certified [...]

Have you or someone you know been told they have “inflammatory lung disease”? “Inflammatory lung diseases are clinically and histopathologically [under the microscope] a group of acute and chronic conditions,” begins Sashini Seeni, MD, a [...]

Wearing shoe lifts to look taller doesn't mean you're any more insecure than if you wore fake fingernails, clipped in a hair extension, or if you're a man, put on some cologne or a hair [...]

Many men are 5’9, and if this describes you, maybe you’ve wondered if you’re actually short, or just average, for a man. This is a fascinating topic, because 5’9 is a “limbo” height: It’s often [...]

Is there a logical reason why a teen or adolescent, who gets bullied online, would keep returning to the scene of the crime, the Facebook page of the perpetrator? “Cyberbullied kids might continue to visit [...]

A study from the University of Tennessee investigated whether or not rock climbing put the athletes at a higher risk for developing osteoarthritis. “According to a 2006 study, rock climbers can develop increased bone thickness,” [...]

The forward direction of pedaling on the elliptical trainer recruits a different pattern of muscles than does going backwards. Try it and you’ll feel the difference. With elliptical backwards pedaling, your upper body is facing [...]

Workplace bullying is a serious problem that can lead to a depressing low mood and/or insomnia. The recipient depends on their job for income -- which throws a real huge kink in the chain. A [...]

Below are links to articles about liver disease that answer questions that perhaps you've been struggling to find answers for with extensive online searches--which either turned up nothing or vague, overly-broad information. So I asked [...]

Find out from a doctor whether or not the brain really turns to mush if a brain dead person is kept on a ventilator. “No, the brain cells do not turn to mush, any more than [...]

An internal medicine doctor explains what life-like processes continue occurring while a brain dead body is on a ventilator. A person is declared brain dead, but the family insists on keeping that person on a [...]

An internal medicine doctor answers the question of hair and nail growth in a legally dead (brain) body. A person who has been declared brain dead, but is “breathing” due to a ventilator, and being [...]

Just because doctors haven’t mentioned peripheral neuropathy as the cause of your pain, doesn’t mean you can’t have it. “Peripheral neuropathy” means disease of the nerves of the peripheral nervous system, and I know at [...]