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  • Did I Hurt My Knee? Or Is It Arthritis?

    Pain and swelling in your knee –one of the body’s most often injured joints – can have a wide range of causes, both traumatic and nontraumatic. Figuring out the root of your discomfort can be a challenge, since the symptoms are often the similar, regardless of the underlying cause.

  • Is It a Heart Attack? Or Something Else?

    Not all chest pains are created equal. And they don’t always mean you’re having a heart attack.

  • What You Need To Know About Ankle Arthritis and How To Treat It

    If you’ve been feeling joint pain and stiffness, it might be arthritis. It can happen when any joint in your body gets inflamed, but it’s often seen in the small joints of your feet and ankles.

  • Pinched Nerve: What Causes It and How Do You Treat It?

    When something shifts in your body and results in a bone, cartilage, muscle or tendon placing too much pressure on a nerve, you can end up feeling pain, tingling or numbness.

  • Want to Know If You’ve Gained Weight? All You Need is a Piece of String

    Many of us have smartphones laden with fitness apps, many of which now count your calories and your steps, track your water intake, and tell you your BMI with the click of a button. We even have special synchronizing $200 scales that detail your heart rate and body fat percentage.

  • Measles Outbreak in California – Could it Happen in Florida?

    For the past several decades, most people living in the United States have not had to worry about contracting childhood communicable diseases. Prevalence of childhood vaccinations has served to create herd immunity, protecting the more vulnerable of our society from these diseases. Yet in December 2014, an outbreak of measles started in California. As of January 30, 2015, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports a total of 102 cases, with one outbreak representing 92% of those cases.

    How could a measles outbreak happen?

    California, like Orlando, is a popular tourist destination for many international travelers. Many travelers come from locations where vaccinations are not required. One person, who possibly had just returned from overseas travel to a developing country where the risk for measles is high, contracts the disease and infiltrates the crowds, spreading germs around. Measles is highly contagious, so even if 90% of the people are vaccinated, the remaining 10% who are not vaccinated will become infected.

  • My Spouse Snores — What’s Causing It and What Can I Do?

    Everyone snores.

  • What To Expect if You Have a Miscarriage

    Too many of us have been in this heartbreaking situation: We are thrilled to find out we’re pregnant -- only to lose the baby.

  • It's OK To Let Your Fussy Baby Cry It Out at Night

    You fed the baby, changed her diaper, rocked her for a bit and put her down for bed.

  • Sex Doesn’t Have to Hurt. Here’s What To Do if It Does

    Sex can be boring or it can be glorious. But painful? Yes, that too. Some women have discomfort — or worse — during intercourse. You don’t have to accept that it’s just your fate in life to have painful sex.