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A Health Navigator Can Prove Helpful for Breast Cancer Patients 07/24/2017 08:00pm • When you're first diagnosed with breast cancer, the number and range of decisions you'll have to make and doctors you'll need to meet with can be thoroughly overwhelming. In an effort to help new patients find their way, many hospitals and treatment centers now offer the services of a health naviga What Is Myasthenia Gravis? 07/24/2017 08:00pm • It appeared to be a bad case of stage fright: Nancy Law was speaking at a conference about 20 years ago when suddenly the words wouldn't come out. "I would begin to say a sentence, and before I would get to the end of the sentence, my voice was gone," recalls Law, who lives in Parker, Colorado. But 10 Ways to Identify the Right M.D.-Ph.D. Program 07/23/2017 08:00pm • Launch A Career As a Medical ResearcherOrdinarily, doctors focus on healing one patient at a time, but a physician scientist's primary task is to investigate the causes of illness and wellness.Through research, physician scientists occasionally discover life-saving cures and treatments, and they col How to Deal With MS Fatigue 07/23/2017 08:00pm • If you suffer with fatigue from multiple sclerosis, you know it's not just a matter of feeling a little tired every now and again. With this sort of extreme exhaustion, you regularly feel so wiped out you have to stop in your tracks and rest right away. You're not alone. Fatigue is one of the most Slump in summer blood donations causes 'critically low' blood inventory 07/23/2017 04:03pm • WASHINGTON — Every summer, there’s a drop in blood donations, but the need for lifesaving blood never drops off. "It's just particularly bad this summer. It's a critical situation this summer," said Regina Bratton with the American Red Cross. Donations drop off during the summer because pe Column: Steps you should take before ditching that printer 07/20/2017 09:21pm • Q: Do I need to do anything to my laser/copier/fax printer before I get rid of it? A: Most of us are very aware of the dangers of disposing of our computers, smartphones and tablets without first wiping them clean of our personal information, pictures and files, but not so much with our printers. Viagra-Like Ingredient Found in Coffee Product Part of Reason for Recall 07/20/2017 08:00pm • The Food and Drug Administration has discovered a number of undeclared ingredients in an instant coffee mix -- one of which will likely turn some heads. That undeclared ingredient is desmethyl carbodenafil, which is similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. T 10 Mistakes People Make When Living With Depression 07/20/2017 08:00pm • Mental illness is difficult to treat, in no small part because patients' thought processes are affected significantly. With depression, patients have distorted and unhealthy views of themselves and their illness, which can impair smart decision-making and get in the way of finding and following a p Does COPD Have an Autoimmune Component? 07/20/2017 08:00pm • The human immune system is a complex network of organs, tissues and cells that work together to defend the body from germs, microbes and other foreign organisms that can cause disease. It's an ingenious system that, when working right, helps protect us from outside invaders, but sometimes it can go Teenagers in Montgomery Co. get a taste of the working world 07/20/2017 04:07pm • WHEATON, Md. -- It's blazing hot, but seven teenagers are hustling a mock patient onto a wheeled cot and into an ambulance, and they've got just five minutes to do it. Dominique Melo, 17, is told to hop up onto the cot and start hands-only CPR during the timed exercise. Her "supervisors" are yell What's the Connection Between the Ovaries and Breast Cancer? 07/19/2017 08:00pm • People often think of body parts in isolation rather than as part of a complex, integrated whole. Especially when it comes to discussions of disease in certain parts of the body, and breast cancer in particular, the tendency can be to think of the breasts in isolation. But the breasts and the canc Why You Should Continue to Vaccinate Your Kids 07/19/2017 08:00pm • When I was a pediatric resident at Stanford University in the late 1990s, I feared that every baby with a fever had contracted pneumococcal pneumonia, a disease that spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes. In its most serious form, it can lead to life-altering brain damage or even death. Is Your Colorectal Cancer Tumor on the Right or Left Side of Your Body? 07/19/2017 08:00pm • Cancers that develop in the colon are not all the same. Where they originate in the colon has important survival and treatment implications. Geography of the Bowel At 5-feet long, the colon makes up the bulk of the large intestine, which is also called the bowel. The colon removes nutrients from t How to Talk to Your Friends and Family About Polycystic Ovary Syndrome 07/18/2017 08:00pm • If you know you have polycystic ovary syndrome, you're one of the lucky ones. Yes, you heard me correctly. While PCOS affects 5 to 10 percent of women worldwide, less than half of us are diagnosed. That means there are millions of women struggling, with no idea why they have symptoms like obesity, HSAs Offer Benefits for Older Investors 07/18/2017 08:00pm • Tax-free health savings accounts would have a bigger role for Americans under the ill-fated Senate Republican proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare. But many people have them already, or are thinking of starting up, raising tricky questions about what to do once they're also eligible for Medicare