Many promising new drugs, devices, and therapies are being developed to boost survival rates and improve the quality of life for those who experience a stroke.

Nights are hardly restful if you have sleep apnea, a chronic and sometimes dangerous condition in which your breathing literally’and repeatedly’stops during sleep. A few lifestyle changes, and a simple machine, may be all you need to control it.

The skin is composed of many different types of cells’basal cells, squamous cells, melanocytes, others’that naturally grow and slough off over time. A diagnosis of skin cancer means some of these cells have become abnormal (or mutated) and are starting to reproduce out of control.

Good news, sinusitis sufferers! Easy-to-follow at-home treatments can produce welcome relief, and plenty of symptom-specific medications can really help.

Perhaps you thought that you were off the hook when your chicken pox cleared up way back when. But the very same virus can come back’with a vengeance’as shingles. Today, antiviral drugs and good home care can ease the pain and discomfort.

Schizophrenia is probably the most misunderstood of all mental illnesses.

If you thought you’d never wear shorts again because of your blotchy, flaking skin, take heart. You will be glad to hear that treatment options for unsightly psoriasis have doubled in recent years.

After smoking, obesity is one of the most preventable causes of death in North America. It’s heartening to realize that losing as little as 5% to 10% of your total body weight can make you much healthier. The secret weapon is commitment.

Hearing that you have multiple sclerosis can be frightening and bewildering, but this nerve disorder often progresses very slowly’or not at all. Now even the more aggressive forms of MS can be treated to delay the disease’s progress.