A Long-Running Mystery, the Common Cramp
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Medical textbooks skirt the topic, often avoiding any explanation. But as anyone who has ever complained of cramps will attest, lots of advice is circulating on how to avoid them.
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The nationâs most common cardiac malfunction is increasingly being treated with expensive procedures.
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Tea drinkers, rejoice: new research supports claims that chamomile tea can protect the body from a host of ills, including colds and menstrual cramps.
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The cause of a mystery illness which killed a bank worker after she cut her foot in India is under investigation.
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It might not just be Vioxx that carries a risk of heart problems. Scientists and European regulators say users of similar pain-relief medications also may have cause for concern.
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Doctors aim to uncover what causes one of the most common mental health problems - social anxiety disorder.
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A study of a closely knit family with several members suffering from a rare illness is providing what researchers say may be important clues to the cause
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Birth control pills taken by about 100 million women worldwide may clog arteries when taken more than 10 years, according to a study.
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Online symptoms searches can be useful. They can also give you acute misinformation.
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Scientists know so little about a disorder that links a strep infection with obsessive-compulsive disorder in children that some question whether it even exists.
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ATLANTA -- It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel like tiny bugs are crawling all over you. Some experts believe it's a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of people say it's a true physical condition. It's...
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON     -- A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found...
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I wonder whether doctors might routinely explore a physical basis for the sudden, unexplained onset of emotional pain.
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UK scientists from Cambridge University say they are closer to understanding the causes of pre-eclampsia - a condition that threatens pregnancy.
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A new study may help older people and their doctors decide how to treat a very common and dangerous problem Â a bulging abdominal artery threatening to burst.
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NEW YORK  - Tea drinkers, rejoice: new  research supports claims that chamomile tea can protect the  body from a host of ills, including colds and menstrual cramps.
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The muscles surrounding my pregnant belly were tightening with ominous regularity as I waited for my asthma doctor to check my wheezy lungs. I have a small frame, and it looked like I had stuffed a dinosaur egg under my shirt. Now, at 25 weeks, it looked ready to hatch. I crossed my legs. Yeah, like that would help. ...