If this is your first urinary tract infection (UTI), you can take solace in the fact that you’re not alone: more than 10 percent of women suffer from a UTI at least once a year. Treatment may now be only a phone call away, and you could feel better in a single day.

Much of what we used to believe about peptic ulcers turns out to be wrong. In place of yesterday’s bland diets (including plenty of milk), antibiotics and acid-reducing drugs are now the first line of attack against this common digestive ailment.

Thyroid disorders affect the body’s metabolism. When hormones produced by the thyroid gland get out of whack, a range of problems’from sluggishness to sleeplessness’can result.

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.

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.