Health & Wellness - May 2012 Archives

Mayo Clinic obesity experts are available to comment on the proposal to ban super-sized soft drinks in New York City.  Michael Jensen, M.D., endocrinologist ...

High doses of the herb American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) over two months reduced cancer-related fatigue in patients more effectively than a placebo.  Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Blinking should be painless, but for many dry eye sufferers, it hurts and affects everyday activities like driving, using the computer and watching TV.  People with ...

There's nothing like a good night's sleep...but for people with obstructive sleep apnea, decent shut-eye is hard to get.  They often snore and repeatedly stop ...

Inflammatory Disorder Treatment Involves Careful Medication Management May 25, 2012 Dear Mayo Clinic: My mother was just diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica. What is it, ...

May 25, 2012 Dear Mayo Clinic:Every time my 2-year-old granddaughter feels a bowel movement coming she does everything she can to hold it in. She cries ...

A top panel of medical experts, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, issued a decision this week in a long-debated men’s health controversy.  The panel concluded that no man of any ...

The number of people contracting the hard-to-control bacterial infection Clostridium difficile is increasing.  According to Sahil Khanna, M.D., Mayo Clinic Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, “We have ...

JACKSONVILLE, Flórida, 21 de maio de 2012 — Bastou aos médicos da Clínica Mayo de Jacksonville, Flórida, acender uma luz minúscula dentro do intestino delgado ...

Roughly one-third of people who suffer from kidney stones will experience symptomatic stone recurrence.  That's according to a 10-year Mayo Clinic study monitored 333 patients ...

Three-fourths of men ages 40–49 could safely avoid annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for an additional 10 years if their baseline PSA falls in the lowest ...

Rheumatoid arthritis patients have a higher risk of early death than the average person and cardiovascular disease is one of the contrbuuting reasons. A Mayo Clinic ...