Articles filed under Health
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Your healthSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Numbers do lie: The number on the scale might be reassuring, but you can still be too fat. More than half of Americans who are considered normal weight have high levels ...
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How to recognize the signs of pubertySep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Is a breast lump in a 9-year-old cause for concern? Not for me, or for the office nurse who returned the mother's call. But my nurse still set up a visit because - with ...
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Anatomy of an ambulanceSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Itasca paramedics saved a man's life this spring with a plastic box the size of a pack of cigarettes. When the 51-year-old man reported severe chest pain, paramedics too...
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Eating disorders - and treatments - know no agesSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Mary Kay Pytel has finally beaten a disease that ravaged her body and consumed her life for 40 years. Today the former bulimic, who used to throw up as often as 20 times...
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Measles vaccine doesn't raise autism risk, study saysSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine doesn't raise a child's risk for autism, according to a new study researchers say they hope will reduce fears among parents who ha...
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Carbs, protein after workout can speed up recoverySep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Olympian Dara Torres recently attributed some of her amazing swimming success to an amino acid supplement that she feels helps her recover better. You may wonder if you ...
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'Sticky blood' often result of rare disorderSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I am writing in response to the gentleman in a recent column who said he had "sticky blood." I have factor V, double genetics, which makes me a homozygote. There...
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Families should consider risks of teen cosmetic surgerySep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - How young is too young to have plastic surgery? In the aftermath of a $20 million-plus court award in Pennsylvania to a family whose 18-year-old daughter died from what ...
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Tobacco linked to one-third of cancer casesSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Cancers that are caused by tobacco were diagnosed in 2.4 million Americans from 1999 to 2004, according to the first U.S. government study to quantify malignancies attri...
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Rare disorder make people feel dead or surrounded by impostorsSep 14, 2008 11:00 pm - In 1993, A man was rushed to the hospital for a stab wound he inflicted on himself. Though he was depressed at the time, the act wasn't intended to end his life; it was ...