Last year, more than half a million hearts in the United States were given a second chance through coronary artery bypass procedures. In fact, it's one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States.
The thyroid, a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of your throat, just below your Adam's apple, has an enormous effect on your health. It regulates metabolism, from how fast your heart beats to how efficiently you burn calories, to how well you sleep and think.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. This is the case for women with overactive bladder, a type of urinary incontinence that affects an estimated 17 million Americans, primarily women.
If you took diethylstilbestrol (DES) or are the daughter of a woman who did, it's important to talk with your doctor about related health risks.
That pain in your calf muscle when you walk may not be an ache from aging or overdoing. It could be a sign that the supply of blood in your legs can't keep up with demand.
Hives, those red, raised and itchy welts, can appear and disappear for no apparent reason. They can be small as a pencil eraser to as large as a dinner plate. They usually last less than 24 hours but can persist for days, weeks, months or even years.
Chronic pain zaps you emotionally and physically. Instead of enjoying family, work, and everyday life, your focus shifts to how much you hurt.
Researchers report that certain physical conditions in a patient, such as a low urinary flow or urinary pain, might help physicians assess a patient's vulnerability to complications of internal radiation treatment for prostate cancer.
The intense pain many patients with pancreatic cancer experience may be reduced by more than 50 percent using a nerve block technique along with the standard pain-relieving medications.
More women than men die of cardiovascular disease in the United States each year. In fact, cardiovascular disease is responsible for twice as many deaths in women than all forms of cancer combined.
Cancer researchers have discovered a key partnership between two genes in mice that prevents the development of cancer of the lymph nodes, known as T-cell leukemia or lymphoma.
Women who were sexually abused as children are much more likely to be current smokers than women who weren't abused as children. That's a key finding of a preliminary study on possible connections between sexual abuse and smoking -- a topic that has been largely overlooked in medical research.
MayoClinic.com has been named Best Overall Consumer Portal in the 2004 Medicine on the Net Web Excellence Awards. Since 1995, Medicine on the Net has guided users to the best health-care resources on the Internet.
An initial study has confirmed the effectiveness and durability over time of a patient-friendly, robot-assisted procedure that corrects a complication that can follow hysterectomy.
Researchers have developed a way to biologically fuse living cells through the use of a genetically engineered cell membrane. This process, which researchers call "biofusion," could speed development of new tumor treatments and cancer vaccines.
Online pharmacies have raised ethical and safety concerns and have highlighted weaknesses in the traditional physician-pharmacist-patient relationship, researchers report.
When it's difficult to swallow food, drink or even saliva, you could have dysphagia, (dis-FA-zhuh), a medical condition that occurs when something goes wrong at any stage of the swallowing process.
Good fats, bad fats, high fat, low fat. It can be difficult to remember which ones to avoid.
Vitamins are good for you. They promote chemical reactions so your body can process foods -- proteins, carbohydrates and fats. But taking high doses of certain essential vitamins can be harmful. Vitamins A, D and B-6 in particular can be dangerous in large amounts.
Popcorn can be a healthy snack -- a quality carbohydrate, high in fiber and low in calories, until you pop it in oil, top it with butter or sprinkle it with cheese.
If it's painful to reach above your head or across your body, it could be the first sign of a frozen shoulder. This joint problem isn't as bad as it sounds. Over time and with proper medical treatment, that stiff joint will likely loosen and "thaw."
If you're overweight or obese with a Body Mass Index (BMI) over 26 here's another reason to lose weight: obesity may increase your risk of several cancers. BMI is a measurement physicians use to determine healthy or unhealthy weight.
A nursing team looking into reasons why patients have difficulty sleeping in the hospital after surgery found surprisingly high peak noise levels, rivaling those produced by a jackhammer.
In the most comprehensive study of how multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms change over time, researchers have found that less than half of patients studied developed worsening disability within 10 years.
Researchers report on procedures that were successful in closing an opening in the heart that fails to completely close after birth in approximately one-fourth of the United States population.
Genomics researchers are the first to demonstrate that mixing of genetic material can occur naturally, in a living body. The researchers have discovered conditions in which pig cells and human cells can fuse together in the body to yield hybrid cells that contain genetic material from both species.
Many older men can commiserate on this one: frequent nighttime bathroom trips usually occur because of an enlarged prostate. A condition that becomes increasingly common as men age, an enlarged prostate can constrict the urethra and make it harder for urine to pass through.
With shortness of breath and sharp chest pain, you call 911, worried about a possible heart attack. It may be a pulmonary embolism, meaning one or more blood clots are lodged in the lung arteries and are cutting off blood flow to lung tissue. Like a heart attack, prompt treatment is vital to saving your life.
It can happen playing hockey, baseball or even with a stumble and fall. If a tooth is knocked out of its socket during a mishap, but not broken, it's often possible for a doctor or dentist to reimplant it -- if you act quickly.
Because most health decisions are made outside your doctor's office, you need to have reliable health information to make the most informed choices. While your doctor remains your best source of information, self-care reference books, Web sites and newsletters can help you stay informed.
Researchers have discovered that genetic variants associated with instances of sudden cardiac deaths are far more prevalent and diverse than first thought -- especially among minorities. The news comes from a study on a specific cardiac disorder affecting young people -- long QT syndrome.
Until recently, doctors thought that celiac disease -- an intolerance of gluten (a protein in wheat and other grains) -- was rare in the United States.
Is the healing power of a placebo real? It's true that some people who participate in research studies and take inactive medications called placebos do see health improvements.
How can you keep those resolutions for a healthier new year? Behavior change experts have developed guidelines that you can use to help transform your New Year's resolutions into long-term lifestyle changes.
Mayo Clinic today announced it has developed a series of magnetic resonance imaging devices that make it easier to diagnose injuries and diseases that affect wrists, forearms, elbows, hands and fingers.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic studying irritable bowel syndrome say their study of people with this disorder suggests genetic factors may play a role.
The results of a five-year study of 795 patients show that a new combination of chemotherapy drugs, known as FOLFOX 4, outperforms the standard chemotherapy treatment for advanced colorectal cancer.
A study on blood-sugar levels in 1,826 intensive care unit patients showed that hyperglycemia (high blood-sugar levels) increased the patient's chance of death. The findings have important implications for the management of blood sugar in critically ill patients.
A different way of taking birth control pills means women are deciding when and how often they menstruate. Instead of about once a month, periods can be timed to occur just four times a year or even postponed indefinitely.
If you think AIDS is a disease mostly of young men, think again. Women are the fastest-growing segment of people to contract the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
If you're hoping to live to a healthy 100, good genes help. But just because a parent lived to be 100 doesn't mean that you will. Likewise, if your parents died in their 60s, it doesn't mean that you won't live to be 100.
It's the season of sleds, skis and snow, and if you're not careful, frostbite.
Shooting pain in your face stops you cold. It may last for just seconds or up to about a minute. Shooting pains can occur one after another for hours or days at a time, or just a few times a day.
Although people often talk about arthritis as if it's one disease, it's not. Arthritis refers to diseases of the joints. It occurs in more than 100 forms.
Being overweight is by far the greatest risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Between 80 and 90 percent of people who develop this type of diabetes are overweight. The good news is you can reverse this process.
A hysterectomy, surgical removal of the uterus, isn't the only treatment for uterine fibroids. Women actually may have many options including therapies to shrink or stop fibroid growth or surgical fibroid removal.
In the quest for an effective weight loss diet that also is nutritionally complete, researchers report preliminary weight loss results of a regimen that is similar to the Atkins diet that are encouraging, but merit further, broader study.
Botox does far more than help erase wrinkles. It can help alleviate more than a dozen health conditions and researchers are continuing to find new uses.
People are putting soy milk on their cereal, in smoothies and coffee. But what are the health benefits of soy milk?
Either you're high or you're low. Euphoric or depressed. Extremely optimistic or persistently sad. For some people with bipolar disorder, it seems as if there is no middle ground.
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