I had two routine checkups last week， and both the eye doctor and the dentist asked me to update my health history for their records. Their requests made sense. Health-care providers should know what ...
Depending on whom you ask， the experiment announced at a Texas medical conference last week was a potential breakthrough for infertile women， a tragic failure or a dangerous step closer to the nightm...
IF YOU’RE CONFUSED BY ALL the news about the health effects of eating fish， you’re not alone. On one hand， the omega-3 fatty acids in fish are known to reduce the risk of heart disease， as the America...
A widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans： heart disease and stroke. That was the implication of a remarkab...
Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that most moms and dads will try just about anything——including spending a lot of mon...
Sleep is a funny thing. We’re taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night， but a lot of us get by just fine on less， and some of us actually sleep too much. A study out of the University o...
WHAT do you do when everyone hates you? That is the problem faced by America’s pharmaceutical industry. Despite its successes in treating disease and extending longevity， soaring health-care costs an...
Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America， but this year’s is a whopper. Until last week， it appeared that 100 million Americans would have access to flu shots this fall. Then British autho...
At 18， Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with an extremely rare and usually fatal disorder that left he...
You hop into your car， but， wait， where are the keys? You meet someone new， but her name is gone before the handshake’s over. Those are failures of your short-term， or “working，” memory——the place yo...