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Imagine a doctor walking into the office where you've been waiting to hear the results of your muscle twitching worries. He's not smiling. Clipboard in hand, he pulls up a stool and licks his lips, [...]
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 [...]
Here's what goes on the day you're told a family member needs emergency quintuple bypass surgery after an angiogram shows severe blockages in five major coronary arteries. My mother was wheeled into the OR for [...]
Here's what to expect hours after quintuple bypass surgery -- and it's not pretty. Forget what you've seen on TV shows; expect the patient to look hideous. My mother underwent emergent quintuple bypass surgery; we had [...]
Learn about these five key ways to help avoid injury from the use of a treadmill workstation. Though a treadmill desk will reverse the adverse effects of sitting all day on the job, the user [...]
The answer is NO! In fact, you can have life-threatening heart disease -- extensive coronary artery blockage -- and still have consistently normal blood pressure readings. "High blood pressure (Htn) causes the occlusions (blockages), but [...]
The "World’s Tallest Children" is on TLC and will certainly keep airing. World’s Tallest Children profiled several kids under age 18, the first being 13-year-old Brennan, who stands 7-4, the world’s tallest boy. I recommend that [...]
Parents play a key role in whether or not their very tall daughter embraces--or despises--her height. Here are super tips for building self-esteem in a tall girl. My niece is 12 and pushing 5-6, and [...]
You can reap serious benefits with a 30 percent incline on the treadmill--but you'll get ZERO benefits if you hold on! You may have spotted those treadmills at your gym that go up to a [...]
Can deep knee squats hurt the knees? Assume the squats are executed with feet flat on the floor, and that “deep” means the thighs have surpassed the position of being parallel to the floor. That’s [...]
Find out the nature of esophageal spasms in terms of type of contraction... Esophageal spasms are always of interest to those with health anxiety because they can cause severe chest pain. And of course, chest [...]
People of color are at higher risk for melanoma (skin cancer) in their fingernails. Melanoma can arise in the fingernail, or nail bed, and is called acral lentiginous melanoma. Below is a photo of what this [...]
The risk of stroke seems to differ depending on type of transient ischemic attack symptoms a person experiences. A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a mini stroke, when a clot forms in a blood vessel in [...]
Believe it or not, there are two ways to do inverted rows while protecting your golfer’s elbow from further injury or pain. If you have golfer’s elbow, you can actually do sets of inverted rows. [...]
There’s a very unsuspecting explanation for why sometimes feet hurt even though you haven’t sprained or twisted anything or worn high heels. Next time you think of showing your bare feet in public with flip-flops, [...]
