Four Natural Ways to Treat Cold Symptoms
Try these home remedies next time you catch a cold.
Category: Medical Tips
Worried That Sore Throat Is Strep? Read On
Four things you need to know about strep throat.
Mucus, Our Body’s Silent Defender
Mucus is something you don’t usually think about until you get sick. But it’s always there, trying to help you stay well.
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Is Motion Sickness Making Travel a Nightmare?
Here’s how to deal with it.
7 Ways You Could Burn This Summer, Other Than in the Sun
Wearing sunscreen is important, but it won’t protect you from these other dangers.
How to Stay Safe in Blazing Heat
The very high temperatures we’re having this week can be dangerous, but heat-related illness is preventable.
Think You Have the ‘Stomach Flu’?
You don’t have influenza, but this short-term illness is just as miserable.
Dealing with Flu: Stay Home or See a Doctor?
Most of the time, you can treat yourself with rest and fluids, but sometimes flu is a medical emergency.
What’s Treated at Urgent Care and What’s Not?
Physician’s log shows what conditions are treated at urgent care, and which patients have to be sent to the hospital.
Is Your Chest Pain a Sign of a Heart Attack, or Something Else?
You should never take chest pain lightly, but it can have non-life-threatening causes
Medical Emergency? You Are in Expert Hands
Of all the medical specialties, emergency medicine may be the most demanding. Emergency physicians work any time of the day or night. In a single shift, they may see dozens of patients in a hospital emergency department. And while other specialists are expert in one field of medicine, emergency physicians are highly trained to treat all manner of diseases and injuries...
The Truth Behind 9 Medical Myths
You hear them all the time. Before you know it, they’re accepted as law. Medical myths often become part of our culture as they get passed from one generation to the next. But what many of us take as expert information may actually be wrong or even harmful to our health.