You wake up. The pain in your head is almost as loud as the alarm. Your muscles ache and you feel hot. The thought of getting out of bed is daunting. Yep, chances are you’re coming down with something. But…
Fighting cancer involves a multidisciplinary attack. Typically, the big three weapons a cancer patient has available to them are surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Of those three, radiation therapy is often the least understood — perhaps because of how technologically…
The term “dry drowning” is little known and often misunderstood by those who have heard of it. Like wet drowning — which occurs when a person inhales water into the lungs and is unable to pull oxygen into his or…
How can I lose weight? It’s one of the most common questions patients ask, according to Josh Ellison, MD, a family medicine physician at Memorial Physician Services’ North Dirksen Medical Associates. To those patients and to the crowd that attended…