Painful chronic conditions that become more common with age, such as arthritis, cancers and neurological diseases to name a few, are among the top reasons your doctor may prescribe a certain medication that just might carry the worst of side effects…

People today are more than twice as likely to develop osteoarthritis than people before World War II. That means something in our modern lifestyle is making us more arthritic. You may guess it’s because people are living longer. You’d be wrong…

You may have read that evidence is stacking up against that supposedly “healthy” glass of wine with dinner. But that’s not the final word when it comes to drinking to your health. There’s been another twist in the alcohol-health debate…

Women in their mid-50s, with osteopenia, only face a one percent chance of fracturing a hip in the next 10 years, but their doctors have already scared them into osteoporosis. That’s 10 years that could be spent shoring up a major deficiency…

Losing your hearing doesn’t just make you feel old before your time, it can take away your independence and risk your safety. If you’re starting to notice your hearing diminishing and your saying, “What?” more often, making your friends and family repeat themselves, try these…

It’s common practice these days to take medications for our ailments. And while medications may be designed to assist your body in some way, they also have to take a trip to the kidneys for filtering. And if you think your kidneys are “safe” from the effects of those drugs, think again…

Do you have horrible back pain that runs down through your buttocks and upper thighs to spread pain into the backs of your legs? Have you tried everything and are still in pain? You could be suffering from sciatica.

Did your mother always tell you to eat your vegetables while you were growing up? While green leafy vegetables can help you stay physically fit, recent data shows they can keep you cognitively fit by feeding and protecting your brain.

If you’re a woman, there’s a certain carcinogen you need to be extra careful about… the heavy metal cadmium. Cadmium mimics estrogen. And, it’s been tied to hormone-related cancers. Breast cancer is one of them. And now, it seems, it may fuel endometrial cancer too…

There’s a vitamin that could keep you safe from skin cancer, which is notorious for coming back again and again. And this time, it’s not vitamin D, but it’s just as important to keeping you…

In this modern world, it’s easy to look to man-made pharmaceuticals to treat all your ailments. But why do that when there are medicinal miracles hiding in plain sight? Take the humble strawberry as an example.

There’s no reason to accept the stomach pain, nausea, alternating constipation and diarrhea, indigestion and gas that is irritable bowel syndrome, especially with new research shedding light on a much simpler answer to overcoming your symptoms.