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How AI and Genetic Testing Can Personalize Obesity Treatment and Weight Loss

Summer Heat & Your Feet: Preventing ‘Summer Spread’

Central Floridians often try to beat the heat with light clothing and sandals and flip-flops that give their feet room to breath.

Bladder Control Issues: The Right Diagnosis Matters

Do you sometimes leak a little when you laugh, sneeze or exercise? You’re not the only one. Known as urinary incontinence, this involuntary urine leakage is common. In fact, nearly 50 percent of adult women experience some form of incontinence. 

9 Sneaky Signs of Heart Disease

You’re probably familiar with the most common symptoms of heart disease. The one that gets the most attention is chest pain (or angina), which can feel like tightness, pressure, aching or pain in your chest. Other top symptoms include pain in your neck, jaw and back; pain, numbness or weakness in your legs or arms; and shortness of breath.

Why Some Teens Choose Implants for Birth Control

While media buzzes about birth control pills and IUDs, some of the youngest sexually active women are quietly choosing another method, and it works: implants.

Giving Up Caffeine Doesn’t Have To Be a Headache

Millions of us begin each day with a welcome jolt from our morning coffee, tea or soda.

Reconstruction Advances Help Restore Sensation in Breast Cancer Patients

Breast cancer is unlike other cancers: Successful treatment isn’t the end of the story. For most patients, some sort of breast reconstruction will follow, and the outcome of that often plays a big role in how a woman sees herself going forward. The good news for patients is that breast reconstruction techniques and alternatives have changed a great deal in the last 15 years. Before that, plastic surgeons often were just trying to fashion something that would “look right” in clothing and more or less fit into a bra.

OCSC Player Alex De John: How to Recover So You Can Stay In the Game

Whether you’re a professional soccer player or a neighborhood kickball enthusiast, injuries are inevitable. Athletes of all kinds can feel defeated. As Orlando City Soccer Club defender Alex De John notes, there are reasons to stay positive about recovery. After seven years as a pro soccer player, he suffered his first injury this season. Here is his advice for getting back in the game.

Improving the Survival Odds for ALS

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neuron disease of the brain and spinal cord. Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS causes motor nerve cells that control muscle movements to die. These movements include the use of hands as well as walking, talking, swallowing and breathing. As the disease progresses, the muscles become paralyzed.

Data Shows Procedure for Severe Asthma Sufferers Provides Long-Term Relief

One in 12 people has asthma, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but recent data shows a 7-year-old procedure called bronchial thermoplasty is giving people with severe asthma long-term relief from future flare-ups.