Before you head to the tattoo parlor, you should know how long the AIDS virus can live in a tattoo needle. Remember, tattoo parlors are not medical clinics, so don’t just automatically assume that the [...]
If you’ve ever held a cup of urine after providing a sample in it for your doctor, you will have noticed that the cup was warm. Or, if your urine has ever streamed down a [...]
Do you exercise a lot and have a fast resting heart rate, while family members or friends who never work out have a low heart rate? Though a normal resting pulse is 60 to 100 [...]
High blood pressure, not just brain tumors and sinus infections, can cause headaches. Hypertension can also cause an aneurysm in the brain – a bulging blood vessel that can burst and cause life-threatening bleeding. First [...]
An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a bulge in the aortic extension that goes down the abdomen. […]
Are you worried you have a blood clot or deep vein thrombosis in your finger? This question pertains to the finger itself, rather than a bruise under the nail from bleeding. You probably already know [...]
Those who fear having ALS may notice that one calf has less muscle than the other and worry this means atrophy and the beginning of a fatal journey. […]
Returning to school can be a source of stress and anxiety for autistic children, as their relaxing summer schedule suddenly changes. […]
For more than three decades, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) has propelled public education on the causes and risks of breast cancer, the importance of early screening and diagnosis, and the growing number of treatment options available today. […]
Chronic heart failure in the elderly has a poor prognosis, but is this made worse if one is subjected to chronic stress vs. if they weren’t? We surely know that chronic stress can contribute to [...]
What does it mean when an ultrasound shows blood in a breast cyst? Is this likely cancer or more likely a benign finding? What prompts women to have an ultrasound of their breasts in the [...]
Do you ever get a brief pulling or tugging feeling in your chest and wonder if this can be caused by GERD or momentary acid reflux? A variety of sensations can affect the chest. • [...]
You wake in the middle of the night or early morning to find that your arm feels like a lifeless log: numb and asleep. You also have MS and wonder if there’s a connection. To [...]
The reason your elderly loved-one eats with their eyes closed and otherwise can’t keep their eyes open during the day may have nothing to do with lack of sleep. Take a look at the following [...]
Multiple sclerosis definitely causes fatigue. But so do many other conditions including cancer and heart disease. “Fatigue is a very well-described symptom in the MS literature,” says Mitzi J. Williams, MD, clinical neurologist with Morehouse [...]
A person suffering from new-onset twitching of an eyelid may wonder if multiple sclerosis might be the cause – especially if this symptom is ongoing and aggressive. […]
Have you ever been walking and suddenly began feeling your body being pulled to one side? If you’ve already been diagnosed with MS, you may then wonder if this condition is the cause. [...]
Are there ways to tell the difference between an ALS foot drop and one caused by a pinched nerve in the low back? […]
It’s a fact that there are people with ALS who were previously diagnosed with benign fasciculation syndrome. There is more than one way that this can happen. […]
You’ve been lifting weights for some time now, but suddenly your deltoid muscle has begun twitching after workouts. This has never happened before. What’s even scarier is if you have not changed your shoulder routine. [...]
Brief sharp pains or ongoing duller pain in a breast will put the fear of cancer in many women. Inflammatory breast cancer is much more associated with pain than is the “regular kind” of breast [...]
This is about pain on the upper right side of the stomach that occurs after eating. […]
A brief sharp pain above your ear when you yawn is definitely an unsettling experience. […]
There IS a difference between “heartburn” and acid reflux. Though these words are sometimes used interchangeably, they do have different meanings. […]
You aren’t supposed to have nausea before a bowel movement. This is not normal. Though the fecal contents may be causing mechanical pressure resulting in the biting pain of “having to go really bad,” there [...]
Stage 1 colon cancer has a very good prognosis, and stage 4 is pretty much a death sentence. How long does it take to go from stage 1 to stage 4? “The process of advancing [...]
If you’ve been hearing or feeling gurgling in your upper stomach or chest, cancer as a cause is not impossible. But the odds of this being benign in nature are piled in your favor – [...]
Discomfort behind the breast upon swallowing has different possible causes including cancer – but not breast cancer. Furthermore, a heart problem may be a possible cause that occurs to the person experiencing pain in this [...]
Usually, a lump caused by breast cancer cannot be seen simply by looking at one’s breasts. But it’s not impossible for a tiny hard red lump on the skin over one’s breast to be caused [...]
Under what circumstance would arm lymphedema prevent a woman from flying in an airplane? […]
Being that very elderly people have such thin skin, the question comes up of whether it’s safe to submerge their sprained ankle in ice water. […]
It’s not a pretty sight: peering inside your mouth to see that your tonsils are red and irritated looking. The tonsils are in the path of acid reflux that makes it into the throat. The [...]
Pain under one’s clavicle in the chest area can have so many causes, and for those worrying that this means esophageal cancer – unfortunately, this IS a possible cause. […]
Whole grains are good for someone with type 2 diabetes, but is it a far reach to think that whole grains can outright prevent this metabolic disease? […]
Have you been trying to convince yourself that your symptom pair of a racing heart and arm pain is anxiety rather than a heart problem? […]
The patient said she had continuous stomach pain day and night that got worse eating. Her doctors could not find anything wrong. […]
Is there a such thing as a slow motion heart attack? The “Hollywood heart attack” occurs in just seconds, but can real life heart attacks take hours to unfold? […]
You abruptly wake up from sleep gasping, feeling like you haven’t taken a breath for a whole minute. Is this your heart? Could it be cancer or sleep apnea? […]
Not treating GERD can lead to cancer, but what could happen if you neglect to treat LPR? LPR is common, and it’s common for people to seek treatment, as its symptoms are often not easy [...]
You had your knee replacement surgery eight weeks ago yet the knee is still pretty swollen and hurts. How normal – or abnormal – is this? […]
