January 24, 2020
A new coronavirus is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. This outbreak began in early December 2019 and […]
January 17, 2020
Emerging research has identified a strong relationship between the gastrointestinal system and the nervous system. This relationship is often termed the gut-brain axis, where physiologic processes or […]
January 13, 2020
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing more than 600,000 people each year. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the most […]
November 17, 2019
Erectile dysfunction is the most common sex problem that men report to their doctor, affecting as many as 30 million men in the United States. Erectile […]
November 3, 2019
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month. In the United States, there are about 3.4 million people with epilepsy: 3 million adults and 470,000 children. Once epilepsy is […]
October 27, 2019
It is estimated that about 27,510 cases of gastric cancer will be diagnosed, and 11,140 people will die from this type of cancer in 2019. Gastric […]
October 21, 2019
Workers in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings face significant risks of workplace violence. From 2002 to 2013, the rate of serious workplace violence incidents […]
September 29, 2019
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women across all races and ethnicities. About 1 in 8 women in the United States will develop invasive […]
September 15, 2019
Multiple Myeloma, cancer of plasma cells, is a relatively uncommon cancer compared with other cancers but accounts for 10% of all blood and bone marrow cancers. […]