Correcting birth defects in utero is becoming more and more possible as this news report from National Public Radio (NPR) explained this week. In this report, at 19 weeks gestation, the expecting parents discovered that …

Choose one of the answers from below:
If you didn’t have health insurance, would you feel:

a. happy
b. anxious
c. not worried about paying for medical bills

Factors that affect how one might respond  to the above include economic status, age, …

Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm found that people who undergo bypass surgery have double the chance of developing alcohol abuse requiring inpatient treatmentover those who opt for other gastric weight loss surgery such …

TMJ is a disorder of the jaw and surrounding muscles which affects the joint that enables us to open, close and move the jaw from side-to-side. Symptoms can occur on one side or both and …

Just how does bacteria manage to evade death from antibiotics? This new research shows that bacteria outfoxes antibiotics by going into a coma-like state by “exposing themselves to near suicidal levels of their own toxins” …

I have a fear of falling – tumbling out of control actually. It gets triggered when I’m out hiking and find myself either getting above tree-line or on a steep path with a sharp drop-off. …

Paralyzed from the chest down in 2006 from a car accident, 26 year old Rob Summers is able to stand for the first time, unassisted for brief periods following the placement of electrodes in his …

If an elevated blood pressure (BP) reading has been obtained during your medical visit, a confirmation of elevation is usually made with one or more follow-up visits during which your blood pressure is taken twice, …

This is a great clip of a minimally invasive lumbar discectomy.