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A hot weather plan is essential to staying healthy

A hot weather plan is essential to staying healthy

Here’s a new fact about spring, summer, fall, and sometimes even winter, now that climate change has blurred seasonal boundaries: sizzling heat may be on the way, or currently blanketing your community. High temperatures

Tourette syndrome: Understanding the basics

Tourette syndrome: Understanding the basics

Just about everyone has met or seen someone who has a tic disorder. Many tic disorders are diagnosed during childhood. Less often, a tic disorder like Tourette syndrome is diagnosed in adulthood — as

Got immunity? Thank your thymus

Got immunity? Thank your thymus

Quick, point to your thymus gland. If you pointed to the front of your upper chest, well done! The thymus gland sits just behind the upper part of the breastbone, between the tops of the lungs

When — and how — should you be screened for colon cancer?

When — and how — should you be screened for colon cancer?

Colon cancer is the second-deadliest form of cancer after lung cancer. If recent messages about colon cancer screening have left you a little confused, that’s understandable. In August, the American College of Physicians (ACP)