Health

As Child Melatonin Use Soars, Experts Urge Caution

Melatonin supplements are promoted as affordable over-the-counter sleep aids, but the evidence is not clear as their use in children ...

Talking About Your Myasthenia Gravis

If you have myasthenia gravis, you may struggle with explaining your condition to family and friends. Here’s how to detail ...

Inoperable Lung Cancer: Current Advances, News, and Trends

New treatments and traditional therapies can give you hope if your lung cancer is considered inoperable. Find out more about ...

How I Decided to Hold Out for the Best Lung Cancer Treatment

Lung cancer isn’t always about smoking. For Leah Phillips, radon caused her inoperable lung cancer. Learn how targeted therapies brightened ...

‘Food as Medicine’ Concept Starts to Catch On: What to Know

The “food as medicine” movement says doctors should use food “prescriptions” as medical treatment. There’s now real money behind this ...

Caring for Your Mental, Social, and Emotional Well-being With Geographic Atrophy

Geographic atrophy can be challenging to deal with at times, but it’s not impossible. A low-vision ophthalmologist shares how she ...

Help Others Understand Your Diagnosis

Learn how to share news of your HER2-positive breast cancer diagnosis with family, friends, and others and get the support ...

Important Things to Consider With Early Stage

An expert discusses considerations for HER2-positive breast cancer care, including types of therapy, costs, side effects, and clinical trials.

Watching What You Eat? How to Navigate Meals This Holiday Season

Nutrition and diabetes experts offer tips for dealing with holiday meals this season if you are watching your weight, or ...

This Season’s Flu Shot Is Shaping Up to Be Very Effective

For people who have gotten a flu shot heading into flu season, there’s good news. This year’s formulation looks like ...

Facing Unpredictable Days

A person with myasthenia gravis shares how to manage the unpredictable symptoms of MG and keep a positive outlook.

What Everyday Life Is Like With MG

What’s it like to live with myasthenia gravis? A person with the condition takes you through a typical day in ...

How to Manage Your Triggers

Managing triggers is key to living well with myasthenia gravis. Learn the common triggers for MG and how to avoid ...

Therapy Born on the Battlefield May Help Ease Anyone’s PTSD

Highly successful cognitive processing therapy helps female veterans overcome PTSD.

How I Handle the Fatigue

Managing fatigue is a big part of living with myasthenia gravis. See how one person deals with changes in energy ...

Make Your Treatment Work for You

Learn tips and strategies from an expert for what to expect when you have myasthenia gravis and how to make ...

The“Fresh Start Effect”: How New Year’s Resolutions can lead to real change.

New Year’s resolutions have become a bit of a joke. Folks in the health and fitness industry get frustrated with ...

The“Fresh Start Effect”: How New Year’s Resolutions can lead to real change.

New Year’s resolutions have become a bit of a joke. Folks in the health and fitness industry get frustrated with ...

Can a Toothpaste Help Protect Adults Allergic to Peanuts?

In an early trial phase, all the people in a study tolerated even the highest dose of peanut protein in ...

Workplace Flexibility Lower Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

If you’re more flexible after the pandemic in how and when you do your work, there’s good news: Researchers have ...

7 Easy Snoring Remedies: Weight, Alcohol, Hydration, and More

WebMD provides 7 easy fixes to help you or your partner quit snoring.

Why Am I Always So Tired?

WebMD explains conditions that might cause you to feel sluggish during the day, such as anemia, thyroid trouble, sleep apnea, ...

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Penis

Medical experts reveal interesting facts about the penis that men and women will find educational — and surprising.

Flu Cases Climbing as We Return to a More ‘Typical’ Season

Seasonal influenza activity is increasing in most parts of the country, primarily in the South Central, Southeast, and West Coast ...

Mediterranean ‘Diet’ Is Really a Lifestyle With Benefits

The Mediterranean Diet isn’t really a “diet,” as the word is commonly used. It’s more of a way of life. ...

Signs Your PAH Treatment Isn’t Working

Not sure your pulmonary arterial hypertension treatment is working? Here’s what you should pay attention to.

Keeping Track of Your Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

When you have pulmonary arterial hypertension, it’s important to see your doctor regularly to make sure everything is OK. Here’s ...

Equal Access to Treatment May Improve PAH Care for Minorities

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare and progressive disease that’s hard to diagnose. But early treatment is key. Here’s ...

More Research, Advocacy Can Improve PAH Disparities

Learn about pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and see how better research and advocacy can help put an end to health ...

Can a Stem Cell Transplant Help With MS?

Learn how a stem cell transplant put one woman’s MS into remission.