Preventive medicine is a farsighted approach to health. This is doubly true when it comes to protecting your most precious sense — vision. If...

The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and other divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were told late last...

It’s official: we’re a superficial nation. And that’s just fine with me… there’s nothing wrong with people taking care to look their best! But...

Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are an infection of either the kidneys, ureters, bladder or urethra — basically, anything that the urine passes through...

Winter is upon us, and so too is the season of coughing, sneezing, snuffling and wheezing. No matter how healthy you are, there’s a...

Yeast infections are downright uncomfortable, and for an estimated one billion women worldwide, this discomfort is a simple fact of life. But many of us...

There is no way around it, anxiety is horrible. There are lots of reasons people are battling the inner struggle, but it's especially...

An overwhelming majority of Americans (88 percent) agree that marijuana has medicinal value. A wide plurality of physicians (76 according to some polls) believes...

Ask any man, and he’ll tell you “man flu” is real — insert eye roll here. But is it simply a term used to...

Smartphones put the world at your fingertips, but could this phenomenally popular technology be undermining your mental health? People often talk loosely about how...