Today's Best Health News

4. Panic Attack

2008-06-29T08:21:00.000-07:00

Your heart suddenly starts pounding so hard you think it's going to leap right out of your chest. You're sweating even though it's cold out. You feel unsteady on your feet and generally shaky, like the world around you is spinning out of control and you can't get a grip....more

3. Athletic edge from Viagra?

2008-06-29T08:18:00.000-07:00

LONDON - Athletes looking for a performance boost are increasingly turning to a little blue pill more usually taken for its off-the-field benefits: Viagra....more

2. Household Cures

2008-06-29T08:13:00.000-07:00

Along with summer fun comes summer bumps, burns and bites — and all those ointments and salves you pick up at the store to treat them. But what if you're nowhere near a drugstore?...more

1. 30 Ways to Reduce your Risk of Stroke and Heart Disease

2008-06-29T08:08:00.000-07:00

Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However, although we're dying of heart attack and stroke less often, we're still getting cardiovascular disease just as often. In fact, some factors that put us at risk, such as obesity and diabetes, have become more common....more

5. Big Tanning worse than Big Tobacco?

2008-06-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

Dr. William James, a professor of dermatology, if the high school students had the right idea about getting a head start on a tan, he laughed out loud. A tan, he said, represents nothing more than damage to the skin. It is the body trying to defend itself against an environmental hazard — too much UV light....more

4. In the Future: Magnets may erase Migranes

2008-06-28T11:47:00.000-07:00

Some migraine sufferers may be able to avoid medication by zapping away their pain with a hand-held magnetic device, new research suggests.

The hair dryer-size device, called a transcranial magnetic stimulation device, delivers brief magnetic impulses to the brain. The researchers, who presented their results today at the American Headache Society meeting in Boston, hypothesized that the magnetic field pulses could short-circuit the pain signals in the brain....more

3. Everything you always wanted to know about your Doctor but were Afraid to Ask

2008-06-28T11:43:00.000-07:00

Two dozen doctors take a chance to tell it like it really is, and general practitioners, surgeons, shrinks, pediatricians, and other specialists took the challenge. Some wanted to be anonymous; some didn't care. But all of them revealed funny, frightening, and downright shocking things that can help you be a better, smarter patient....more

2. Cancer Patient Cured by his own Cells

2008-06-28T11:38:00.000-07:00

A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed. The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure....more

1. 9 Ways Night Owls can become Day People

2008-06-28T11:35:00.000-07:00

Night owls don't have it easy. After all, few people can choose to show up at work or school late. And that night-owl tendency--sleep doctors call it a "delayed sleep phase," in which you go to bed and rise late--is hard to change. "...more