Navigating social interactions can be challenging for those on the autism spectrum, leading to feelings of loneliness or fear of being disliked. Social worker Court Allred shares simple, practical strategies...
If physical therapy or medications haven鈥檛 helped your chronic back pain, what do you try next? Tom Miller, MD, and Richard Kendall, MD, talk about one option鈥攁n epidural injection. They...
Med Student Mentor, Andrew Meschter, talks to Ryan Craig MD-PhD about the program, what it鈥檚 like, his experiences, and the advantages of the dual degree. He also gets some tips...
It鈥檚 been years鈥攅ven decades鈥 since puberty and your first period, so why do you still break out like a teenager? Dr. Kirtly Jones says although many people think it鈥檚 an...
Many people take language classes at some point in their life, but there鈥檚 a big difference between passing required language tests and being proficient in a language in a working...
In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray Gesteland, Ph.D., professor...
It can be horrifying to see your child鈥檚 face start to swell and realize they鈥檙e having an allergic reaction. If your child has severe allergies to certain insects, medications or...
Thanks to large amounts of research, doctors and parents are getting better at identifying and working with children with autism. But it can be difficult to transition all that research...
On TV shows like CSI, pathologists are the ones who do the autopsies. But Dr. Jerry Hussong is a clinical pathologist who says the job entails much more than that...
Grocery stores may not realize it, but they wield unparalleled insight into their customers鈥 eating habits. Each swipe of the loyalty card records food brought into the household, which makes...
You just had your baby, so when your doctor asks you what kind of contraception you want to start using, you鈥檙e caught off guard and you鈥檙e not sure what to...
How often do you perform breast self-exams? Jena Andrus and Karen O'Toole from Huntsman Cancer Institute talk about an app called Check Yourself. It鈥檚 a simple app that shows women...
The positions that cyclists get into both on mountain and road bikes can put a lot of strain on the neck and back. Dr. Tom Miller talks to osteopath Dr...
A child comes into the emergency room in with fever, coughing, and chest pain. What鈥檚 causing her illness? A new type of test promises to take the guesswork out of...
Have you ever wondered why women tend to outlive men? Turns out, there are a lot of variables and possible explanations for why the average woman will live five years...
鈥淚 know that I have a finite amount of time once I get out into practice and I really want it to matter.鈥漌hat makes former equities and bond trader on...
One of Dr. Jill Sweney鈥檚 jobs is to talk about organ donation to parents that have just lost a child. It鈥檚 tough, yet she does it because she has seen...
Dr. Tom Miller tells us why using antibiotics to prevent traveler鈥檚 diarrhea could cause bigger problems than the one you are trying to avoid. He also has a couple quick...
Detecting a child鈥檚 mental disorder can be difficult because many of the behaviors can also occur as part of normal development. As a result, some parents are hesitant to seek...
Simple conversations can become an exercise in frustration when a loved one begins to lose hearing with age. Sarah Hargus Ferguson, PhD, associate professor of communications science and disorders, explains...
