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  • How Bone Marrow Transplants Save Lives

    Autologous transplant — uses your own healthy blood-forming cells harvested by doctors before chemotherapy and then reimplanted after treatment

  • How to Spot Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease

    Memory, judgment, reasoning and language skills are all important cognitive functions that falter when Alzheimer’s disease takes hold. Alzheimer’s is a form of degenerative dementia that eventually affects a person’s ability to function on their own. But how can we tell if a slip-up is just a natural mistake or an early sign of something bigger and more worrisome?

  • Recognizing the Signs of Drowning

    Drowning is the second-leading cause of injury-related deaths in children between 1 and 14 years old in the United States, and it is the third-leading cause of unintentional death worldwide.

  • Don’t Skip Your Flu Shot This Year

    Why It's Important To Get Your Flu Shot  Between 2010 and 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that strains of

  • Recent Developments in Lung Cancer Immunotherapy Bring Hope

    Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women, with about 14 percent of all new cancers being lung cancer. It kills 1.6

  • Solving Your Pelvic Pain

    Pain in your lower abdomen or pelvis can range from uncomfortable to debilitating, and can be caused by multiple factors.

  • Highlighting Aphasia: A Commonly Misunderstood Communication Disorder

    You know that frustrating feeling when you’re in a conversation and trying to think of a specific word, but can’t? For many of us, the word eventually comes to mind, or we move on, knowing it’s a rare mental lapse. But for those who have aphasia, that frustration comes often and can be long-lasting.

  • New Advice for Treating Young Athletes With Concussions

    “Don’t let them sleep through the night.” That used to be the advice doctors gave parents when their children had concussions, thinking that frequent checks were needed to ensure they were coherent. But that advice has changed. As we’ve learned more about the brain and concussions, we’ve also learned more about how to speed the healing process.

  • How Robotic Surgery Can Help the Opioid Crisis

    Prescription drug addiction is a health crisis in the United States, with the abuse of opioids leading the way. Opioids are a class of drug that includes both illegal drugs such as heroin and others that are legally available by prescription to relieve pain, such as oxycodone, morphine, codeine and hydrocodone.

  • How the Umbilical Cord Saves Your Baby’s Life—and the Lives of Others

    It’s an unforgettable moment, when the baby’s umbilical cord is cut after birth. With that painless snip, you and your baby are officially separated. Until then, the umbilical cord served as a lifeline to your child, connecting them to the placenta and providing oxygen and nutrient-rich blood, while removing waste products. Once your baby is born, the cord is cut—it has served its purpose. But did you know that even then, your baby’s umbilical cord can still save lives?