Most of us have heard the adage “Feed a cold, starve a fever.” It comes from an outdated theory that a cold makes your body cooler and eating can help warm it up, and that a fever makes your body ...

Dr. Ellen Foxman still remembers her young son struggling to breathe as he battled an asthma attack that tightened his small airways. For any parent, it’s a frightening moment – one that has stayed ...

Winter Stroke Warning: Every winter, hospitals in India witness the same old yet underappreciated phenomenon: with the fall in temperatures, the incidence of strokes also follows an increase. Even as ...

With cold and flu season in full swing, odds are you'll find yourself reaching for a medicine to relieve a stuffy nose. But what actually works? Last fall, a Food and Drug Administration advisory ...

New Takes on the classics. Throughout our centennial year, we’re revisiting notable works from the archive. Sign up to receive them directly in your inbox. In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny ...

Erika Prouty, PharmD, is a professional community pharmacist that specializes in blood cholesterol readings, blood pressure readings, and medication therapy management. B12 deficiency can cause ...

The advice is literally centuries old: Feed a cold and starve a fever. The adage comes from a 1574 dictionary by English writer John Withals, who wrote, “fasting is a great remedy of fever.” That is ...

The intimate freeride film with Victor de Le Rue was shot by Alex Heitler. Last year, The North Face put out the film Circle of Madness, and captured the attention of much of the snowsports world. The ...

"Hearing those words was like a stabbing pain in my heart," baby Melody's mom said of the moment the family learned of the devastating diagnosis Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...

Of the 2,000,000 or more Americans who get transfusions every year, too many die on the operating table, and some as the result of a medical mistake. Surgeons and anesthesiologists, who are cautious ...

An international project led by Hungarian researchers has successfully identified the remains of Duke Béla, the Ban of Macsó, a member of the Árpád and Rurik dynasties. The investigations have ...

In NBC's Dateline episode titled In Cold Blood, horrifying details of a Florida woman, Kim Dorsey, are recounted. The 38-year-old woman was found in her bedroom by her husband, Derrick Dorsey, on ...