About 6,000 people a year seek emergency treatment for heat illnesses suffered while playing sports or participating in other recreational activities outdoors, the CDC says in a new report.
Continue reading …To prevent accidental overdose, the maker of Extra-Strength Tylenol brand acetaminophen has reduced the maximum dose from eight pills (4,000 mg) to six pills (3,000 mg) a day. The maximum dose for Regular Strength Tylenol will be cut in 2012.
Continue reading …WebMD talks to experts about how new fathers can start bonding with their newborn baby.
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Strokes during pregnancy and after childbirth have increased at what one CDC researcher calls an alarming rate.
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Gout has become a more common medical issue in the United States in the past two decades, at least in part because of the nation’s obesity crisis and a greater frequency of high blood pressure among the populace, new research indicates.
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Despite years of a coordinated advertising and branding campaign, a new study shows that use of the color pink doesn’t work so well for awareness of and fundraising for women’s issues like breast cancer. The problem is not that some women are turned off by the traditionalism and underlying stereotype of a pink brand, but rather that too
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The health reform law -– the Affordable Care Act — is slated to usher in changes in how our health care dollar is spent and how far it can stretch during the ensuing decade.
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Review of 1.6 million mammograms from 685,000 women shows that commonly used computer-assisted detection (CAD) makes mammograms more costly but not better at finding cancers.
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Children and teens who use cell phones are not at increased risk of getting brain cancer, according to a new Swiss study.
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Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) that incorporates a self-help workbook may help people with pain, weakness, dizziness, and other symptoms — with no underlying physical disease — to feel and function better, a study shows.
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