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Take Charge of Your Life! Just do it!" You've seen it on billboards, in magazines, on television. "Just do it!" Sure, it's an advertising slogan, but it's still good advice. [...]

The breezes of spring aren't so gentle for people allergic to weed pollen, grass pollen, and mold spores. You've got your mother's eyes, your father's smile, and--a chronic stuffy nose? [...]

An estimated three fourths of all visits to family physicians are related in some way to stress. It was the morning after. The morning after her visit to the emergency [...]

But It Was an Accident! The Emergency Room Mercy Hospital Your Town, USA Every Day, 1991 3:30 p.m. Rick Jones, a 40-~ear-old sheet metal worker, arrives at the registration desk, [...]

Rob had a birthday last was a good time. as a party, complete with family, friends, gifts, and a cake with 41 candles. Rob felt great. He had a routine [...]

Jim Allen, a 58-year-old married Caucasian male, woke up at 3:00 a.m. with tightness in the middle of his chest, radiating to his back, neck, and arms. He was mildly [...]

Myths--fanciful stories, unsubstantiated accounts, unscientific beliefs--all provide the basis for commonly held misunderstandings about sexual activity in senior years. As more and more people enjoy longer life with good health, [...]

1. "Take charge of your body and learn ways to keep it healthy." "Please do not abuse your health by expecting antibiotics and other medicines to be prescribed for you [...]

It never ends. It just keeps going on--the investigation and trial, appeals, probation hearings, the grieving and the pain of losing a child to murder are prolonged and intensified." Years [...]

Forty-two? Forty-three? Forty-four? Don't ask me when it begins. I'm not at all sure. But I do know that middle age is an imminent reality for me and my friends. [...]

What began as a nagging backache turned out to be a weakening of the wall of the aorta (aneurysm) extending from the upper chest into the lower abdomen. The decision [...]

Low back pain hurts a lot of people and costs a lot of money. Eight out of 10 people experience low back pain at some time in their lives. it [...]

Susan was not her usual cheerful self. I could tell that something was not right in her world. When I asked her how things were going, tears came to her [...]

Appropriate management of the family medicine cabinet is mostly just good, common sense. Mom, I feel miserable. I have a headache, my nose is all stopped up, my throat feels [...]