Athletes Getting Bullied

A coach’s job is to make athletes the best they can be for the team, while providing support and guidance for individual team members. However, some coaches might be taking it too far.

Missing the Mark with ADHD Kids

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) usually struggle with behavior that is impulsive and overactive, or difficulty keeping their attention focused, or both.

Drug Offers Cancer Patients a Normal Life

For some patients, living with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) isn't terribly difficult; it just means taking a single pill once a day and living normal life.

Breastfeeding Moms Take No Prisoners

National Geographic fans are probably familiar with footage showing a mama bear's reaction to people who accidentally get close to their cubs. Those mamas attack without holding anything back.

MRIs can Predict Disease Course

Because rectal cancer is usually discovered at an advanced stage, chemotherapy and/or radiation are often given to shrink the tumor before surgery. Measuring the effectiveness of these treatments can predict the course of the disease.

What About Natural Remedies for Hypertension?

Cardiologist John Bisognano, M.D., Ph.D. has patients coming in "carrying bags full of 'natural' products that they hope will help lower their blood pressure." He wanted to know which ones work.

Busting Bath Salts

Bath salts are becoming more popular but not the kinds that are sprinkled into baths. Scientists have developed a test for these salts that might help law enforcement.

The Next Wave of Testing Heart Arrhythmia Drugs

Testing new drugs is no easy task. Animal testing may show successful results that aren't replicated in humans, and having drug trials in individuals could result in undesirable side effects.

Tiny Microdevices Boost Cancer Therapies

It's so tiny that it can be implanted through a biopsy needle. Yet what this device does is anything but tiny, and could be a big boon to cancer therapy.

Your DNA May Cut Parkinson's Risk by 20 Percent

Most often, patients consider having a genetic risk for a disease means that having a gene increases the likelihood of developing a particular medical condition. That's not the case with a new Parkinson's gene.

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