Alzheimer’s: Maintaining Your Relationship
Alzheimer’s disease is a difficult diagnosis for the person with the disease as well as for all those who love them. As the brain becomes weaker, it becomes harder to recognize your loved one’s “old self.” It is as though the person you once knew and loved is gone even when they are physically still present. How can you maintain your relationship More...
Why It Takes So Long to Diagnose Ankylosing Spondylitis
Carlos Julio Aponte, MD, still remembers his ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patient No. 1. The man, a former traffic controller, was referred to Aponte more than 4 decades ago, More...
6 Ways to Improve Back Pain
When Deanne Bhamgara took a tumble off her electric scooter on a pier in San Diego, she didn’t make much of it at first. The fall left her sore, but she felt only little pain. But over the next several days, More...
You Are Your Best Advocate
For the first decade of her life, Saada Branker enjoyed a normal, active childhood in Montreal. But after a year of unexplained pain in her shoulders, hands, and feet, her More...
What We Learned From Pain of Ankylosing Spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) came for Lovaine Cohen with speed and force. Lovaine Cohen was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis in her 30s and needed to have hip More...
Assistive Devices: Living Better With Arthritis
If you’re living with arthritis, certain assistive devices and changes around your home can help you tackle everyday chores with less pain and move around more easily and safely. “When you have to do the More...
U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Grows, Yet Deaths Seem Preventable
July 25, 2023 – On June 2, 2019, 35-year-old Anne Hutchinson gave birth to her first child, Lillian. There were no problems with the pregnancy or the birth at Fairview Hospital, which is part of the Cleveland More...
EGFR Lung Cancer in Asian People
It’s widely known that smoking cigarettes and having a history of tobacco use raises your risk for lung cancer. But it’s not the only risk factor, according to Julia Rotow, MD, thoracic More...
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Do Home Remedies Work?
Kate Mitchell was 10 years old when she started having pain in her ankle. It wasn’t until she was 19 when she got diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). And by the time she found medication that More...
Intermittent Fasting vs. Calorie Counting for Type 2 Diabetes
July 25, 2023 – Losing weight is an important part of type 2 diabetes care – it could help lower blood sugar and reduce the need for some diabetes drugs. To shed the extra pounds, new research shared More...
