Mets reliever Matt Wise will seek a second opinion on the team’s right rotator cuff tendinitis diagnosis that landed him on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday.
Wise’s current ailment, he said, is related to a nerve problem in the back of his shoulder that makes his arm feel as if he’s “throwing underwater.” Word from [...]
In an interview with Reuters Health, Melissa Miller, who spoke at the meeting, noted that 4 out of 10 older adults suffer from a chronic condition, like heart disease, high cholesterol, or arthritis. A lot of these older adults avoid exercise because they think they are going to hurt themselves or make their condition worse, [...]
The scientists caution that the discovery does not suggest the presence of chronic disease, nor does it support extended use of antibiotics to treat Lyme disease in humans. Their findings are reported in the March issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
However, they say, the results of this study do set the stage for [...]
Joseph Guerra, 91, wore a blue suit and rode his motorized chair while “Girl Watcher” played. As the music started, he pulled out binoculars to check out the scene. “Everyone had a laugh,” he said later. Eleanor Kaplan, 88, came out in her final outfit with a sign: “Gone Fishing.” [...]
The study, which appears in the March 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Disease, confirmed the suspected close link between the two most common diseases of young children, viral colds and ear infections. It also identified the viruses associated with higher rates of ear infections.
%26quot;Understanding how viruses and ear infections are linked will definitely help us [...]
Now, approaching dusk on Jeanna’s second day in the hospital, she lay in the intensive care unit, a breathing tube threaded through her nose to prevent her from choking on saliva. She was unresponsive.
The Gieses told Jeanna they loved her. They prayed. They told her to pray, too.
Mystified by their daughter’s illness, John, 44, and [...]
But this innocuous-looking bug is wreaking havoc from Asia to Europe. And scientists say it is one of the most perplexing and powerful flu viruses they have ever seen.
It has jumped the species barrier from wild birds to domestic poultry; from domestic poultry to people; and from dead chickens to cats. This latter transmission is [...]
In a special pediatric program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, recent patients have included a 100-pound 3-year-old girl and a 417-pound 15-year-old boy. Some children had to be weighed on a loading dock scale.
In a Milwaukee hospital in May, 285-pound Charles Hayes stooped to kiss his 248-pound wife, Jodi, 33, [...]
