Body & Health Conditions Articles

Drug interactions can make certain cancer medications less effective, but what if there was a simple solution to a life-shortening problem? It seems a Dutch research team has found exactly that — in the form of Coca Cola.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors that can originate anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract but they are more common in stomach and small intestine.

When my mom suddenly became confused, we suspected Alzheimer's. The truth, it turned out, was different: she had a UTI, and it nearly killed her.

Thirty-two year-old Austrian-born biomathematician Franziska Michor believes that cancer cells may behave in predictable ways that can be understood with advances in mathematics.

Heart disease kills more people worldwide than anything else. This article will discuss risk factors and facts about the heart disease and the lifestyle changes that significantly reduce the chances of getting heart disease

Supplemental enzymes do not have a lot of value in treating insulin resistance, the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes. They can be extremely useful, however, in treating diabetic complications such as peripheral artery disease.

I look a bit like a boxer at night now, but at least I'll get to keep my teeth.

I was diagnosed with pneumonia and pleurisy in February. It took months, and a pulmonary embolism scare, to get over. Two lots of hefty antibiotics later I am "well" again, but getting used to life with new lungs.

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder which is characterized by a lack of normal red blood cells. It presents in early childhood and the patient is usually left with a lifelong struggle for receiving blood transfusions.

Cellulitis, a bacterial infection of the skin, used to be easy to control with antibiotics. With growing problems with antibiotic resistance, however, some doctors are going back to traditional medicine to find a cure