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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This article was reported by Barry Meier, Gina Kolata and Andrew Pollack and written by Mr. Meier. In the mid-1990&#39;s, the medical community reached an inescapable conclusion.
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The childâs pain and fever came every few weeks â then disappeared as mysteriously as they had arrived.
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Research published (Thursday 28 October) in Europe&#39;s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1] , has found evidence that women with endometriosis[2] are at higher risk of having migraine.
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No one knows for sure exactly what causes muscle soreness, but many scientists think that the delayed pain is caused by microscopic tears in the muscles.
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How to heal when the inexplicable occurs? Sometimes the right response is acting normal
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By Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 8--In the past few months, I have diagnosed myself with enough maladies to fill a medical textbook, which might never have happened if one night I hadn't typed two simple words onto my computer screen:   Stiff neck.
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The little known and poorly understood syndrome seems to affect primarily women, researchers are reporting.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is k
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The coincidence of high blood pressure and high cholesterol is too great to be attributed to chance, yet the underlying cause has long been unclear.
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Though it has long been dismissed as a serious illness, scientists have found a gene linked to the often debilitating syndrome
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Jennifer Capriati can't ever remember cramping in the middle of a tennis match. She can recall being so nervous during a warmup that she thought her feet would stick to the court, but never needing medical assistance to quell that sinking physical feeling.
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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. ...
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The nationâs most common cardiac malfunction is increasingly being treated with expensive procedures.
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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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Aug. 18, 2004  When it comes to the common cold, just about everyone claims to have a cure or a treatment  some real, some bogus. But researchers now believe they&#39;ve found something that works to ward off the cold and other upper ...
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By Julie Deardorff  Increasing numbers of us are Googling our own weird headaches, rashes and unexplained symptoms before heading to the doctor.  And although physicians are secretly Googling difficult medical situations, many aren't thrilled that we're doing the same thing.