Most people are familiar with that bothersome sensation of always needing to sneeze - hay fever. This allergic rhinitis effects millions of people all across the world and can cause interruption to their daily lives, especially when the amount of pollen in the air rises.

They say pregnancy can give women crazy mood swings as her hormones are in flux. So what if a woman already has bipolar disorder and becomes pregnant?

Sex! Violence! Drugs! Alcohol! Bullying! Pregnancy! Parenting can feel like a minefield at times, and a recent national poll reveals how important all these child health issues are to adults across the U.S.

Everyone is afraid from time to time, but if you suffer from a panic disorder, the feeling can strike quickly and without warning in a way that impedes your ability to live a normal life. Now research is attempting to give us a better understanding of the physical effects of the disorder and explore new possible treatments.

The image of "obesity" often conjures up people who can barely fit through a doorway or who always require two airline seats.

Scientist have made amazing progress measuring the electrical fields of the brain, especially in recent decades. Does medical science now know enough to be able to use that knowledge to change the brain's electrical state, so that patients with medical conditions benefit? For the better part of a century, researchers and clinicians have been able to put sensors on a patient's scalp to measure how the brain's 100 billion neurons generate electrical fields. The patterns produced when these fields are recorded by the sensors as waves are known as an electroencephalogram, or EEG. Th...

Off-label drug use happens when a drug is used for a condition for which it does not have approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Doctors may give an off-label prescription for many reasons.

In the final installment of our series on lung cancer, we continue our conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts.

How do you know when someone you love, or you yourself, could use the help of a therapist? Often, people exhibit some warning signs that they are dealing with overwhelming feelings or circumstances.

Over the past decade, scientists and researchers have worked hard to find new drug treatments for diabetes. But even as patients have a growing variety of drug options, diet and exercise are still essential ways to prevent and control diabetes.