By Kathy Hubbard   “My daughter has been very depressed for the last several months,” a woman wrote on the Ask the Expert page

One can only imagine what the Patient Experience Survey might contain if the Duchess of Cambridge were to fill one out about her recent stay

“I pass out when the doctor brings out the blood pressure cuff, so you can imagine what I do when they tell me I need

What did Al Capone, Ludwig van Beethoven and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They all allegedly had syphilis. Obviously, Lincoln didn’t die from it, but

“What is occupational therapy?” a gentleman wrote to a newspaper helpline. “I am retired and I don’t need a job. What does OT stand for?

  In the first two years of medical school a fledgling physician will double his or her 15,000-word vocabulary with mostly Latin-derived words that are

In the 1920s some college guy was bragging that he had swallowed a live goldfish. His fellow Harvard students bet him $10 that he couldn’t

“I have emphysema. I should have died ten years ago but instead I quit smoking,” Janet R. wrote on a blog at the American Lung

We all know what analgesics are, don’t we? You know: aspirin, acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), and naproxen sodium (Aleve). These are the medicines we buy

My father’s sister married a widower with two very small children to whom she devoted her life. Phyllis was around two and Harold was five

Most of us think of donating blood as altruistic. It’s something we do to save someone else’s life whether they suffered a catastrophic accident or

I once had a father-in-law who always gave up smoking for Lent. What’s a little weird is that back then (it was the 60s) none