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Can Exercise Help With My Breast Cancer? 06/28/2017 08:00pm • For years, scientists and doctors have sought the magic bullet for cancer. Drugs, therapies, surgeries and other medical interventions have been deployed in an attempt to cure the disease, but more recently, some doctors are beginning to think that a key to battling the disease -- one we've all got Diagnosed With Colon Cancer? How a Healthy Lifestyle Increases Longevity 06/28/2017 08:00pm • If you're one of the 1.1 million survivors of colorectal cancer, you're probably concerned about your prognosis and whether your cancer will come back. That's understandable. Colorectal cancer survivors are at higher risk for developing secondary cancers. However, you'll be happy to know that lifes 9 Extra Safety Assignments for Hospital Patients 06/27/2017 08:00pm • Going above and beyond the call of duty.As a hospital patient, your goal is to get treatment, get better and go home. Your top priority should be recovery, not worrying about data privacy, avoidable treatments or questionable billing practices. Being expected to adopt infection- and error-prevention How to Avoid Tick Bites (and Lyme Disease) This Summer 06/27/2017 08:00pm • With the arrival of warmer weather, you may be spending more time enjoying summer pleasures such as picnics, barbecues, hikes and other outdoor adventures. But keep in mind: The height of tick season -- and hence Lyme disease risk -- is also here, and 2017 is expected to be particularly intense as f Your Doctor Just Got New Guidance on Genetic Testing: What Women Need to Know 06/27/2017 08:00pm • In a recent conversation with a friend who experienced fertility problems, she admitted that all she wanted from her doctor was a chance to get pregnant. When she finally decided to pursue in-vitro fertilization, she was offered genetic testing in the form of carrier screening. She declined, ration A tick bite that results in a meat allergy? Cases creep up in US 06/27/2017 01:31am • WASHINGTON — This summer, a routine tick bite could leave you with more than an area of irritation — it could result in a lifelong allergy to meat. Dr. Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet, a Gaithersburg, Maryland, allergist with the Allergy and Asthma Network, says doctors throughout the eastern p What Are the Types of Orthopedic Doctors? 06/26/2017 08:00pm • Group effortHow many surgeons, doctors, nurses, technicians and others does it take to provide complete orthopedic care? Quite a few, as it turns out. Whether you're a baby boomer with arthritis, a weekend athlete with a broken leg, a teen with a sports injury or a child with scoliosis, you'll likel Side Effects From Cosmetics Are Rising, Report Says 06/26/2017 08:00pm • Side effects from cosmetics and personal care products have been on the rise, new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests. Researchers determined this by looking at side effect data sent to the Food and Drug Administration between 2004 to 2016, Reuters reports. The products include ev For Some Kids With Severe Scoliosis, Magnets Mean Less Surgery 06/26/2017 08:00pm • Some curving of the spine is normal. But where a spine might naturally look like a very stretched out letter S, with severe scoliosis -- or abnormal curvature serious enough to warrant surgery -- the spine can begin to look more like the letter C. In addition to causing issues like low-back pain, se Research U.S. Universities' International Student Career Services 06/26/2017 08:00pm • Ghanaian national Owura K. Kuffuor, a political science graduate student at Eastern Illinois University, wants to work in the U.S. after graduation. To achieve that goal, Kuffuor has frequented the university's career center, which he says advises students on everything from proper job attire to ex Best Children's Hospitals 2017-18: Honor Roll and Overview 06/26/2017 08:00pm • The annual U.S. News Best Children's Hospitals rankings, now in their 11th year, offer guidance to parents seeking the best place for their very sick child. The top 50 medical centers are ranked in 10 specialties, including pediatric cardiology & heart surgery, pediatric diabetes & endocrin What's the Connection Between Vitamin D and Breast Cancer? 06/26/2017 08:00pm • Our bodies require a whole alphabet of vitamins and minerals to function optimally. From vitamin A to zinc, our bodies need to replenish a variety of different elements every day to stay healthy. Most of these vitamins and minerals come from the foods we eat, but many of us don't get enough of cert Antibiotics Screwed Up My Gut. Now What? 06/25/2017 08:00pm • "Better safe than sorry" were Andrea Duclos' famous last words. She said them to herself when accepting a prescription for antibiotics about two years ago. The now 32-year-old founder of the lifestyle blog OhDearDrea in West Palm Beach, Florida, had recently returned from a nearly three-week trip t Delivering Health Care Across Cultural Divides 06/25/2017 08:00pm • The sunny waiting room in suburban Maryland holds widely assorted patients: a slender man in gold-cloth African garb; some women wearing hijab head coverings, others without. In the hallway lined with treatment rooms, a young woman in shorts sits next to a man donning a baseball cap. Here at the Mu Lobbyist injured in congressional baseball practice shooting discharged; Scalise out of ICU 06/23/2017 01:45pm • WASHINGTON — The lobbyist who was wounded in last week’s congressional baseball practice shooting has been discharged from the hospital, his family said Friday evening. Matt Mika, an executive in Tyson Foods’ D.C. office, was being treated for multiple gunshot wounds after the June 14 shoo