Personal Best: 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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NEW YORK  - During the last weeks of pregnancy, many women become so large in the middle that they look as though they might tip over. But through evolutionary processes, nature has devised a way to keep them upright on their sometimes swollen feet.
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They regularly visit doctors' offices complaining of baffling combinations of symptoms for which no medical cause can be found: chest pain one month, gynecologic problems the next, followed by headaches or crushing fatigue. These patients, Jensen and other experts say, are much more focused on......
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A comprehensive study finds that abortion and miscarriage lead to low birth weight and preterm birth. But is 40-year old data still relevant today?
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Answers to some commonly asked questions about atrial fibrillation.
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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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People with a history of migraines and other headaches lasting at least four hours are more likely to report suffering from the chest pain doctors call angina than people who do not experience such headaches, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel
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Scientists think they have figured out why pregnant women don't lose their balance and topple over despite ever-growing weight up front. Evolution provided them with slight differences from men in their lower backs and hip joints, allowing them to adjust their center of gravity, new research shows.
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NEW YORK  - Musician's cramp, and other   so-called focal task-specific dystonias, are typically thought   of as sporadic or occupational conditions. Now, researchers in   the US and Germany have identified three families with these   disorders, suggesting that the disorders may be inherited.
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I guess I'm the bad boy of heart attack survivors. Mine played like low comedy from the start. It felt not like shearing pain; I had no revelations of mortality and sense of endtimes and lost opportunities. Actually, it seemed Bill Clinton was sitting on my chest playing the saxophone.
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The little known and poorly understood syndrome seems to affect primarily women, researchers are reporting.
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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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Dr. Sarah L. Berga is one of a handful of physician-scientists exploring how chronic stress may be the cause of some womenâs infertility.
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Women who exercise routinely  for four or more hours per week may reduce their chances of  having a successful pregnancy with in vitro fertilization  (IVF), new research suggests.
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When my wife was in labor in 1991, the doctor attached an electronic fetal monitor to her belly to record her contractions and the baby's heart rate. I remember being so transfixed by the monitor that I forgot about my wife. At one point, she said, "Wow, it hurts." But because the graph on the...
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Do young women who sell their eggs to make a few bucks have to worry about early menopause? In Bodyhack.
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A website goes the extra mile to make sure voters aren & rsquo;t confused this Tuesday.  Also: West Virginia organizes the first public supercomputer & hellip;.  FDA keeps its eye on a new pain relief drug & hellip;. and more.