Your liver is durable and usually maintenance-free, but not indestructible. It pays to understand how to prevent liver disease because advanced liver disease (cirrhosis) remains incurable without a transplant.
It's the dead of winter, and you can't shake the blues. You may be experiencing a form of depression called seasonal affective disorder -- SAD.
Twas the season for friends, family and too much food. Now, it's time to face those extra pounds.
When playing tennis or golf makes your elbow hurt, the cause could be tendinitis, a painful condition when tendons, which attach muscles to bone, become inflamed or irritated due to tiny tears. Recovery can take several weeks or months.
Be a cautious kisser, especially if you have a food allergy. A Mayo Clinic physician offers a word of caution on Valentine's Day.
An interruption in normal breathing patterns during sleep which is often seen in heart failure patients may contribute to heart failure rather than just being a result, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic collaborative study.
A new Mayo Clinic study shows that the fears of many related to living into one's 90s and beyond -- getting lost in your own neighborhood; losing the ability to take care of financial affairs; having a driver's license revoked; ending up in a nursing home -- are in many cases unfounded.
More than one-half of women with heart disease are dissatisfied with their health care and face significant obstacles to their recovery, according to the first-ever national survey of women heart patients.
Nearly one-third of patients with advanced multiple myeloma who had failed current standard therapy of chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation responded to thalidomide for a median duration of nearly one year in a Mayo Clinic study of the effects of thalidomide on myeloma.
A Mayo Clinic investigation of Interleukin-6, a hormone inside cells often considered a "bad actor" of the immune system because of its association with inflammation injuries and malignant diseases, shows that it also plays a therapeutic role in mice: it protects brain cells.
More than one-fourth of adults over age 45 have abnormalities in the way their heart fills with blood and are at significantly increased risk for premature death, according to results of a study of 2,042 randomly selected residents of Olmsted County, Minn.
What do nutrition experts pack in their lunch bags and put on the dinner table? Mayo Clinic experts share their favorite food picks in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
Anticoagulants can be lifesavers, but they also carry risk. Too much medication and you may have bleeding problems; too little medication and your blood clots too quickly.
Women smokers may face greater challenges than men when they try to quit. The January issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource shares some interesting comparisons between men and women who smoke.
Doctors can determine if you are at increased risk of diabetes, which now affects 16 million Americans -- more people than ever before.
Noticing that your hearing isn't what it used to be? A possible cause is otosclerosis (o-to-skluh-RO-sis) -- an abnormal growth of bony tissue in the middle ear that results in hearing loss.
A red bump that's tender to the touch could mean you have a surface abscess, sometimes called a boil.
Mayo Clinic researchers are raising concerns about the potential association between the drug pergolide and valvular heart disease.
A Mayo Clinic study of more than 41,000 postmenopausal women in Iowa provides new evidence that the most common type of lung cancer in women is more closely linked to smoking cigarettes than previously recognized.
Aspirin, the old standby for aches and pains, helps decrease the risk for a number of diseases, including several cancers.
Drug-coated stents, a pending treatment for clogged coronary arteries, is a major advance in patient care. However, it's not clear whether coated stents are appropriate for all people receiving stents or for all types of blockages.
The first few steps in the morning feel like you are stepping on a knife, and then the pain lets up somewhat after you've been up and around a few minutes.
Remember the annual checkup with a battery of tests? For most people, it's history.
Women who eat fish can significantly reduce their risk of coronary artery disease. While researchers have known that eating fish can help prevent CAD in men, a new study provides insights about the connection for women.
You forget names and misplace the car keys. Could you be losing your memory?
A study by Mayo Clinic researchers indicates that narrowing of the heart's "exit valve" is less than half as likely to worsen in patients taking statin drugs, as compared with similar patients not taking the cholesterol-lowering medications.
Researchers from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., report wearing ionized bracelets for the treatment of muscle and joint pain was no more effective than wearing placebo bracelets.
As the number of hot tubs in the United States continues to grow, physicians are likely to see an increase in "hot tub lung" cases. Mayo Clinic researchers present two cases and offer their conclusions as to the cause of the patients' lung inflammation.
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new breast-imaging technique that shows promise in improving breast cancer detection, according to the November issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
If you're overweight, have high blood pressure and high blood fat levels, you may have insulin resistance syndrome, an increasingly common condition that can lead to both heart disease and diabetes.
A perfect food with protein, vitamin A, vitamin D, riboflavin and other vitamins and minerals, or the culprit that may make cholesterol creep up to dangerous levels? Eggs are both, according to the November issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
Two studies recently published suggest that diets rich in antioxidants -- especially vitamin E -- may play a role in protecting against Alzheimer's disease. One study indicated vitamin C also could be a factor in prevention.
Do you consider your pharmacist part of your health-care team? If not, you might be missing relatively easy access to important information about medications and your health, according to the November issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter.
How do you know when an ongoing cough warrants a visit to the doctor? The November issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter offers these reasons to check out a nagging cough.
A Mayo Clinic study indicates patients who are newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow, may have a new and better-tolerated option to intravenous chemotherapy treatment.
An article, "Long-term trends in the incidence of and survival with heart failure," shows the first improvement in heart-failure survival in a long-term community study.
An international clinical study led by Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., showed that radio-frequency ablation significantly reduces pain and enhances quality of life for patients whose cancer has spread to the bone. The study provided evidence used by the U.S. FDA to approve RF ablation for treatment of pain in cancer patients with two or three painful bone metastatic sites.
Researchers report that patients taking a common osteoporosis medication (bisphosphonate) showed no increase in upper gastrointestinal tract problems compared with groups taking placebos. The findings are important as physicians seek therapies to increase or maintain bone density in women with osteoporosis.
The Mayo Clinic Women's Heart Clinic is hosting a conference from Oct. 12-16 that will gather 60 women with heart disease for five days of education and training to help them be patient advocates in their communities.
Opioid analgesics (opioids), powerful pain relievers whose use has been hotly debated in the medical community, should be prescribed for some patients with chronic lower back pain, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Aspirin in the morning? Asthma medications at night? Your internal body clock could set the optimal time to take medications, according to the October issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are evaluating a new, noninvasive way to treat uterine fibroids, noncancerous tumors that occur in one of every four or five women over age 35.
Varicose veins, large twisted veins where the valves have stopped working, aren't normal or pretty. But most don't need treatment unless you want cosmetic changes, according to the October issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource.
If your vision suddenly is affected by little spots, specks, hair-like shadows, the sensation of flashing lights or blurred peripheral vision, see your ophthalmologist immediately.
Soy is an inexpensive way to add protein to your diet, and it may help reduce calories, saturated fat and cholesterol when substituted for meat. The October issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter offers these ways to include soy in your diet.
Millions of people with arthritis pain find relief from COX-2 inhibitors, drugs introduced in 1999, which offer pain relief and anti-inflammatory properties. Some COX-2 inhibitors have been shown to have less potential for causing harm to the stomach and digestive system than other pain-relief medications.
Most people have experienced occasional, brief and usually harmless symptoms, called arrhythmias -- the feeling of a skipped, fluttering or racing heartbeat. They occur when the electrical impulses in your heart that coordinate your heartbeats don't function properly.
Mayo Clinic researchers report that the risk of stroke that sometimes results from a common treatment for atrial fibrillation can be minimized when the patient takes anticoagulation medication prior to the procedure.
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed another user-friendly calculator to aid physicians in better understanding complex cancer data and helping their patients make more informed decisions about treatment.
A Mayo Clinic study identifies several factors in patients with Parkinson's disease, which predict medical services utilization and prognosis.
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