Study: Antibiotics Work No Better Than Placebo In Treating Sinus Infections
One in five antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. are for sinus infections.
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One in five antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. are for sinus infections.
You've heard of bowling for dollars, but what about dieting for dollars? A new weight loss program is offering big cash rewards is you can shed some pounds.
Tuesday marked the grand reopening of the West Penn Emergency Room in Bloomfield after a 14-month hiatus.
What Jon Burnett did on his summer vacation ended up being a serious "pain in the neck." A congenital condition in Burnett's neck called "Cervical Stenosis" was traumatized in a water tubing accident on an East Tennessee lake.
There's nothing quite as wondrous as the sight of a brand new baby, but at least three million couples in this country struggle with infertility.
For people whose hearts stop, bystander CPR is done in only one in three instances and only half the time it's done right.
There's a new warning for patients who are taking certain heartburn and acid reflux drugs. The FDA believes that taking proton pump inhibitors like Nexium, Prilosec, Zegerid and Prevacid may increase your risk of developing a stomach infection.
A map from a study in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and hygiene shows we're in the green, meaning "low risk." But what have doctors actually been seeing?
The meeting of east and west is something called "Integrative Medicine" and for many people, it's the best of both worlds.
Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
The breast cancer advocacy group Susan G. Komen for the Cure has withdrawn funding to Planned Parenthood – money that had been used for breast exams and mammograms.
Do you remember what you did on May 13, 1998? Do you remember that it was a Wednesday? What about what you wore that day? It seems ludicrous to even ask. But a small number of people can remember - not just one day, but many of the days of their lives. They have super memory.
If you take Lo?Ovral-28 for birth control - check your pills. Because of a packaging error, you may have received too many active pills...or too many inactive pills. Drug maker Pfizer is recalling these, and the generic equivalent. The worry -- the pills won't work.
Who benefits more from cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins – men or women? Turns out, they both benefit.
And all this time we were worried about what was going on inside Sidney Crosby's skull. When Crosby took that hit to the head in the Winter Classic on New Year's Day 2011, he complained of "soreness in his neck."
