Disease

Back in 2012, we noted the good news that the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in children served by federal food assistance programs had diminished.

Critical self-perception plays a significant role in why women choose not to engage in breast self-examinations, an essential tool in breast cancer prevention.

Mention osteoporosis-preventing nutrients and most people will think of calcium and vitamin D, even though my colleague Dr.

Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes a life-threatening infection.

Advancements in cancer treatments are neither frequent nor easy to acheive.

Some kids really get into dinosaurs.

Cancer is a tough word to hear as a patient, and “mass” (my physician way of hedging my bet until I have proof) isn’t much better.

Millennials don't have it easy, contrary to popular belief.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a well-known phenomenon, which has been plaguing us since right after penicillin was invented. But resistance is not limited to microbes.

Medical researchers studying CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, are working to learn more about this degenerative brain disease.