"Ankle sprains are notoriously under-treated by primary care doctors and emergency rooms, and most importantly by the patients who suffer them", says Dr. Holly Johnson, a foot and ankle specialist from Prosports Orthopedics in Cambridge, MA. Thousands of young men and women, from weekend warriors to professional athletes, suffer ankle...

It's only natural to have clammy hands when nervous or excited, but imagine having excessively wet, sweaty hands all the time......hands that literally drip with sweat, making the simple act of shaking hands embarrassing and uncomfortable. An estimated 3 million Americans experience excessive sweating - a medical condition called...

Stopping colon cancer more than two years before it develops...that's the promise of a family of "Fecal Immunochemical Tests" (FIT's) now offered to the profession. So reports the anti-colon cancer drive spearheaded by the Quest Diagnostics company, a major provider of such life-saving tests.

While seemingly gruesome a topic...

If you are one of the three million Americans that suffers from food allergies you know how difficult it can be to feel safe when dining in a restaurant. You may have experienced the "eye-roll" from your server, a clueless manager, multiple miscommunications with the kitchen, nagging uncertainty about...

Doctors wielding the most recent technological advances have reported great strides in the repair of age ravaged skin. More dated methods have helped, but leave a lot to be desired. But time, as well as technology, march forward.

With an explosion in the cosmetic "injectible" market, many cosmetic surgeons...

Arthritis in the hip is a real pain. In addition to the nagging discomfort, it slows people down and limits their activities. Until now, the best option for most people with severe arthritis was a total hip replacement for permanent pain relief. Now a procedure called hip resurfacing is gaining...

If you are like most Americans you've struggled with your weight, and tried countless diets with little success. In fact, you might even weigh more than you did when you first started dieting. The numbers don't lie. Americans are getting heavier each year- almost two thirds of us are now...

"Noise is sound that we have not selected to listen to', says Dr. Alan Gertner, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Deafness at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Further, he notes that during every hour of each day a sea of sound surrounds us, just like...

When you look at the body as a holistic whole, the old '50s folk tune "The hip bone's connected to the thigh bone" makes critical sense. Researchers and medical providers are learning that that old song was true: problems at the bottom of the body (feet, legs) affect everything above,...

Beginning in the 1980's and for the following two decades, if you wanted a filler for wrinkles or lines on your face there was only collagen. In the past few years, many new wrinkle-fighting medications have been approved. Radiesse, otherwise known as calcium hydroxylapatite, is a new and longer term...

If you've never heard of "Asherman's Syndrome," you're not alone. But a recent episode of The Return of Jezebel James (FOX on Friday nights) highlighted this rare...but perhaps under-reported....impediment to fertility.

The character in Jezebel is Parker Posey, an infertile New York book editor using her fertile sister...

It's the dreaded diagnosis no one wants to hear. Actor Patrick Swayze is the latest public figure waging the fight of his life. He's one of more than 1.4 million people who will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year.

For patients and their loved ones,...

According to the Center for Disease Control in 2007, autism affects 1 out of every 150 children, up from 1 out of every 10,000 in 1980. Even if you account for over-diagnoses and other factors, the increase and current rate is terrifying, afflicting children with a single or multitude of...

A California-based nationally acclaimed photographer has penned a seminal book for and about pediatric heart patients My Heart vs. the Real World, published by CSHL Press, following ten youngsters and their families as they wind their way through the early years after diagnosis.

Max S. Gerber is a...

Don't let the snow and still-sub-zero temperatures fool you - its time to start getting in shape for your spring softball leagues, golf games, and pick-up soccer games.

New York winters can be long and cold; the last thing many people want to do at the end of a...

Better for your health, better for your sex life, and better to renew your pelvic pleasures. Hard to believe that we're talking about wearing high heels, but recent studies reverse the old negative publicity which blasted those staples of everyday women's existence...studies which blamed high heels as a cause of...

There's probably no prescription medicine more familiar than the birth control pill. After all, when a woman says she's taking "the Pill," everyone knows exactly what pill she's talking about.

Since its introduction more than 45 years ago, more than 80 percent of American women have taken the Pill...

It is a leading cause of blindness around the globe. Yet more than half of the people who have the disease don't even know they have it. No wonder Glaucoma is known as "the sneak thief of sight."

It is a disease characterized by gradual loss of vision resulting...

While they say that home is where the heart is, Dr. Kenneth Cooper makes the case for where you live also benefiting your heart rate, blood pressure, and overall state of health and wellness. Modern "medical" fitness can be directly traced to the 1960s when he first introduced his revolutionary...

A woman I'll call Cathy came to me recently for a foot problem, but ended up talking about very different problems. "I've just had it with this winter," she told me. "I just can't get up the energy to get my work done. I can't concentrate, even when I do...