This short video examines some dietary changes and medications used to treat gout. For more information about gout, read, “Gout: A Painful, Inflammatory Arthritic Process“.

What makes some people keep their New Year’s Resolutions and not others? Success depends on several things. First as obvious as it seems, you need to state your goals either in writing or to someone. Goals that are not …

It’s a startling but true fact that brain damage that causes blindness can leave intact the brain’s ability to still process the visual information even though we can no longer “see”. Called “blind-sight”, neurologists have been mapping the …

It’s that time of year when we eat our way through the holidays and then look for quick ways to shed those unwanted pounds. So it’s particularly timely that the FDA tested weight loss pills sold …

Harold Pollack, director of the University of Chicago Center for Health Administration Studies, is a health care expert who has served on national panels. In his article, “Lessons from an Emergency Room Nightmare” he writes, …