For most kids who are active, complaints about joint pain can be both common and harmless. But if your child鈥檚 joint pain is severe or chronic, it may be early...
In one way or another, you find yourself punctured with a freshly sharpened No. 2 pencil. There might even be a bit of a dark spot from the graphite underneath...
After menopause, a majority of women don't take hormonal therapy with estrogen and often find they have a sense of dryness or burning in the vaginal area. The good news...
Medical experts recommend pregnant women sleep on their side, but what if it makes you so uncomfortable you can鈥檛 even fall asleep? Is going to sleep in a different position...
Strep throat is a bacterial infection of the tonsils that is relatively common. It鈥檚 contagious and can lead to a very sore throat, so the earlier it鈥檚 treated, the better...
Severe grief or disruption can cause anyone to cry, and that鈥檚 normal. Prolonged crying that persists without reason is not normal and may indicate a serious condition requiring treatment. Dr...
You wake up in the morning with stomach pain so severe that you can鈥檛 stand up straight. Emergency physician Dr. Scott Youngquist tells you if that鈥檚 a reason to go...
It may seem like a given鈥攊f you run long distances regularly, then you鈥檒l eventually need a knee replacement. But from a doctor's perspective, that's actually not true. Emergency physician Dr...
Some of the health issues that concerns women don鈥檛 actually pertain to their own health, but rather, the health of the men in their life. One of the health problems...
You feel a pain in your chest and left arm. You immediately start worrying that you're having a heart attack. At what point do chest pains equal a heart attack...
Robotic-assisted liver surgery has the potential to cut down your recovery time from three months to just a week. The procedure is a new option available for people with liver...
For many American women, changes in weight are often punctuated by pregnancy. Women's health expert Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones shares some simple changes in lifestyle that she has observed in...
Diarrhea is a not-so-pleasant condition we have all experienced at one point or another. But what should you do if it lasts longer than a day? Emergency room physician Dr...
Until about 100 years ago, 1 in 10 women died in childbirth. And the period after childbirth was equally delicate. If women survived a difficult birth, they often were left...
If your child needs to use the bathroom every ten minutes or so, or if you frequently see urine spots in their underwear, you might be concerned. Pediatrician Dr. Cindy...
Have an extreme pain or discomfort in your stomach? Has it lasted longer than five minutes? Many sufferers avoid going to the emergency room for fear they鈥檒l just be told...
Bedwetting is more common than you would think. But it's often something parents and kids don't want to talk about because it can be embarrassing. Pediatrician Dr. Cindy Gellner talks...
From Downton Abbey to 鈥淎bby Normal鈥濃 Dr. Kirtly Jones explains the variations in women鈥檚 breasts and how cultural, ethnic, and developmental differences influence the perceptions of what constitutes normal. She...
Eating disorders are serious medical conditions that significantly impact both the body and mind, particularly in teens facing physical, emotional, and social pressures. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, discusses the health...
Should you go to the ER for back pain? In this episode of ER or Not, emergency room physician Dr. Troy Madsen details the two symptoms you should be looking...
From eating healthy diets to preparing the incubator, there are many things recommended to women to do before they get pregnant to have a healthy baby. But it takes two...
States with the least access to family planning have the highest rates of unplanned pregnancies and maternal deaths. Starting May 18th, Utah will become one of a few states that...
