During this most unusual of presidential campaigns, I've had the pleasure of spending time with tweens and teens who may be #tooyoungtovote, but who are not too young to be focused on the issues they care about most.
Swiss surgeons successfully used an experimental technique, which includes harvesting cells from the nasal septum, to repair damaged knee joints in patients. Two years later, these patients report improvements in pain and knee function, according to a study published Thursday in the journal The Lancet.
Margaret Boemer went for a routine ultrasound 16 weeks into her pregnancy with her third child. She quickly found out that things were far from routine.
In his mid 40s, Mike Thomas went bald. Not a "little bald spot in the back" kind of bald or "receding hairline" kind of bald, but almost totally and completely bald. He was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease, and he was devastated.
There were more reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases last year than ever before in the United States, according to the latest STD surveillance report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Good thing Danette Purvis paid attention in that CPR class she took. She ended up putting those new skills to work to save a man's life the very next day.
News events are a constant reminder that the world is full of risk. Jets crash or vanish into the sea. Terrorists perpetrate nearly unthinkable acts of violence on civilians. Nature sends us tornadoes, floods, sharks, snakes, bacteria, viruses and countless other deadly threats. Certain foods lead to increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. Others are contaminated, recalled from shelves.
Pregnant women who have "lived in, traveled to, or had unprotected sex with someone who lived in or traveled to Miami-Dade County" since August 1, 2016, should be tested for the Zika virus, the Centers for Disease Control said Wednesday.
Creating an effective treatment for schizophrenia requires a better understanding of its biology, of the genes that cause it. Using technology to illuminate chromosomes, scientists confirmed the underlying genetics of this mental disorder. The identified genetic disruptions occur at a crucial time in brain development.
While the concept of migraine "food triggers" is thought to be less important now than it was in previous decades, many doctors agree that certain foods can play a role in migraines.
Some of the most important topics that we should be discussing with our children are often the toughest, and sex and sexual assault are definitely in that category.
