Health Screening & Wellness

Women in their thirties are getting skin cancer with increasing frequency. Put a note on your calendar to schedule an annual checkup with a dermatologist. To remind yourself, see if you can schedule it the same month as your annual pap smear with your... Full Answer

There are many types of blood pressure monitors on the market. You can purchase them in drugstores, supermarket pharmacy departments, or other large stores. Look for a monitor with a cuff that wraps around the upper arm and inflates automatically.... Full Answer

It is difficult to quantify exactly how much patrolling your own health affects your RealAge (physiologic age). But there is no doubt that it markedly affects it for the better. For example, if you spot an early cancer and have it removed before it has a... Full Answer

It's important to be informed about your health so that you can participate in making important decisions that can improve your well-being. In this video, Dr. Chopra shares his views on why making lifestyle changes motivated by fear can backfire.... Full Answer

Symptoms are simply described as a diagnosis, without an attempt to propose a cause for them. Examples here include diagnosis of low back pain, dyspepsia, abdominal pain, and dizziness. The criteria for diagnosis are vague, which leads to much... Full Answer

Physical symptoms and physical disorders (i.e. medical disorders where the etiology [cause] is established) are not equivalent. Many patients with physical symptoms, such as back pain, do not have a medical disorder, such as... Full Answer

Disease is the manifestation of a pathological state that is externally verifiable. This means the condition can be detected by medical tests. For example, duodenal ulcer--a disease--is confirmed by an endoscopic examination. Full Answer

Symptoms of a disease may not be the same in everyone. They can be silent, vague or atypical. And occasionally they mimic or hide behind other diseases. Couple that with the number of potential diagnoses that can be attributed to a single sign or... Full Answer

Long before a doctor ever orders a test, writes a prescription or lifts a scalpel, there is that pivotal symptom hinting that something is not right. It will eventually become what doctors call the "chief complaint," the symptom or constellation of... Full Answer

People who have doctors live longer, and they live better. If you don't have a doctor, it's like going into dock with a big ship without a captain on board. You end up smacking into the wall of the dock, and you cause more problems that you can't fix... Full Answer