HEALTH: BELL RINGING

Concussions vs. high school football players

HEALTH: HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

Look what Mr. Smith hid in the dining room. You can’t tell him we found it,” was the secret my grandmother shared with me. It was the 1950s and my maternal grandmother always called her husband – my grandfather – Mr. Smith. This amused us grandchildren and friends our age. Hidden on top of a china...

HEALTH: WAR on Wrinkles

Wrinkle creams and potents that work

HEALTH: Acid Reflux

April – a month of taxes and heartburn

HEALTH: POLYPHARMACY

When the cures become the problem

HEALTH: A BIG SWELL

Different Stages of Lymphedema

HEALTH: The lice wars

The unspeakable “it” on children’s scalps

HEALTH: On their feet all day long, physicians explain why they wear the shoes they do.

Physicians universally believe that their profession is tough on the feet – long hours, bounding from exam room to exam room, making hospital rounds and rummaging through radiology departments for images without reports. Actually chefs, waiters, clerks, policemen and many others are on their...

HEALTH: Snowball headaches, what they are and ways to get rid of them

Sometimes when I bite directly into a snowball, I get this intense stabbing pain. It feels as though all my brain material and juices freeze,” says Kara Mihlon, a junior studying civil engineering at LSU in Baton Rouge.

“The pain starts in my forehead and quickly moves past my ears to...

HEALTH: Swell Times, thyroid swelling can be a sign of something worse

My hair was getting thinner, and my nails were splitting. I was not happy,” says Dell Jordan, a nurse who managed two hospital nursing units and the joint-replacement program at Memorial Medical Center until she retired about a year ago.

“For the first time ever, I would wake up at...