CyberKnife and other kinds of radiosurgery aim a beam of radiation directly to a brain tumor, sparing damage to healthy surrounding tissue. Yet many people with a brain tumor undergo only manual surgery to remove [...]
One possible cause of smelling something bad that’s not there is a brain tumor. The brain tumor causes seizure activity that leads to smelling odors that have no outside source. […]
Lifting weights can cause a number of injuries involving the shoulder and back, and many weightlifters wonder if a winged scapula can be one such injury. […]
You can have a “winged scapula” and not even know it. When’s the last time you looked at your upper back in a mirror? A winged scapula can progress and require treatment. […]
Here are the instructions simplified on how to prepare the DigniCap® for the prevention of hair loss during chemotherapy. Wetting the Hair • Make sure hair is washed first at home before attending the treatment. [...]
The DigniCap hair preservation method is capable of preventing just about all hair loss from chemotherapy. In some patients. You don’t know if you’ll be one of the lucky ones. […]
Have you noticed that soon after eating anything with onions, you’re so hungry you can eat a horse? And this hunger from onions is relentless, because you keep eating afterwards and the hunger is still [...]
You may want to skip all the colorful balloon popping at your child’s next birthday party, as this can damage the hearing of little ears. Certainly, good food and fun games are all that the [...]
You don’t have to do HIIT just because you’re “making” your dog do it! There’s a way to take it quite easy while you get your dog to do high intensity interval training. [...]
Do you know someone who, no matter what the topic of conversation, can’t quit smiling when talking? This doesn’t refer to the smiling between two good friends who haven’t seen each other for awhile or [...]
As spinal stenosis progresses, the patient gets increasingly hunched over when walking. “Spinal stenosis is a common problem that develops in the spine as we age,” says Dr. Nick Jain, MD, a board certified and [...]
Your total hip replacement makes a squeaky sound with every step. Will the squeaking eventually go away or are you stuck with it? What about a revision surgery? […]
If you have a workout program that suggests “Smith machine bar in an incline” for women unable to do pull-ups, and you don’t know what this means, then here is the explanation. Pull-ups Using a [...]
If your tall 5-year-old daughter sees you worrying about her height, she’ll internalize this anxiety & learn to hate her body — and that can attract bullying. Okay, it’s one thing if you’re concerned from [...]
Are you now fully recovered from your total knee replacement surgery and are interested in taking up jogging for aerobic exercise? There is a strong likelihood that you, as a total knee replacement patient, were [...]
What’s unique about the child who’s able to foil an abduction attempt, vs. ones who never try? Every once in a blue moon you hear about a child who wildly “fights off” an abductor and [...]
Lifting weights will raise blood pressure, but there are exercises in particular that will really put your blood pressure through the roof. Normal blood pressure is under 120/80. It’s not surprising that a very fit [...]
Can people whose femurs are shorter than their shins, regardless of torso length, have a mechanical advantage with the leg press? Nearly all the attention regarding the long femur problem is directed at the back [...]
A person can suffer a heart attack only three days after a knee replacement (or other joint replacement) surgery. Just HOW does this happen? […]
It's not always normal to still have hip pain three months after a hip replacement. There are loads of possible causes for this pain. The first possibility: Total hip replacement patients who fail to adhere [...]
One of the simplest strength training moves is actually the best for fighting off anxiety during postmenopause. Women of all sizes can do this exercise! […]
A baby or toddler barefoot in public can catch a nasty infection. But sanitation aside, some people think it’s gross. Little dirty feet can stink and appear grubby. Babies’ and toddlers’ bare feet will get [...]
Ever had one menstrual period right after the other—so just as one period ends, the next one begins? This phenomenon is characterized by about 10 or so consecutive days of bleeding. The first cycle in [...]
The automated breast screening ultrasound is the latest technology that women with dense breasts should have. Perhaps the biggest advantage to this technology is that it pretty much eliminates operator error. […]
If you had a non-contrast CT scan of your head for whatever reason, such as you fell on your head and feel sick, would it necessarily show a brain tumor if you had one? “The [...]
“Depending on the tumors, some blood tests can be used to detect a brain tumor,” says neurosurgeon Charles Park, MD. “But most of the cases, we find the brain tumor and then do the blood [...]
The cause of a period coming exactly two weeks after the one before that, and never happening again, may very well be from desire and will. A subconscious instruction to start menstruating 14 days after [...]
Your fear of a brain tumor is not imaginary if you’ve been having a 24/7 headache for the past several months. “The most common symptoms of brain tumors are headaches,” says neurosurgeon Charles Park, MD, [...]
Anxiety really CAN be caused by periomenopause – the precursor to menopause that no woman looks forward to. Here are natural (and surprising) treatments. […]
The so-called bad cholesterol can be raised by menopause—and that’s really bad. But there IS something you can do to knock this cholesterol back down. […]
Heavy bleeding during menopause is NOT normal under any circumstances and could actually mean cancer. Certain cancers can cause heavy bleeding. […]
“It is normal after a colposcopy with a biopsy to have a small amount of spotting or light bleeding,” explains Lindsay Appel, MD, an OB-GYN with the Family Childbirth & Children’s Center at Mercy Medical [...]
There may be a logical explanation for why perimenopause or menopause is linked to twitching muscles, but it’s probably not what you think. Have you noticed lately that your new-onset muscle twitching seems to have [...]
We’re not talking about a change in armpit odor strength from increased menopausal perspiration, but an actual change in the odor itself – a really stinky pungent scent. Have you experienced the following? • You’re [...]
Dense breasts are a risk factor for breast cancer. In fact, it’s one of the higher risk factors for this disease when the density level is considered to be extremely and even heterogeneously dense. A [...]
Why is it that the strongest bench pressers at the gym have big stomachs? Does a big belly really improve one’s ability to bench press? […]
If you have only a few moles, this doesn’t mean you can blow these off & think you’ll never get melanoma. Even if you have ONE small mole, it can still turn into melanoma. [...]
Your teen can have tinnitus without you even knowing it, because kids don’t think this is anything to worry about. But it is: future hearing loss. Cause of tinnitus in teens? It’s high level exposure [...]
An esophageal spasm can feel just like a heart attack or angina from severely clogged arteries. The esophagus is the “food pipe” through which food and drink go down. “Esophageal spasms can be painful,” says [...]
How does a slow jog compare to a regular jog when it comes to fitness and calories burned? […]
