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7 Habits That Secretly Annoy Your Doctor

How can you meet your doctor halfway? Help them help you. We spoke with three healthcare providers who say these are the most common behaviors that can get in their way of delivering the best care.
Every year, almost 610,000 Americans have a first-time stroke and, for around 87% of them, it's an ischemic stroke, in which a blood clot or plaque in the arteries blocks blood flow to the brain. And ...
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia. While there's no cure for dementia, medication and treatments like ...
Smoking, heavy drinking, and physical inactivity can take a lasting toll on health by age 36, a new study shows. But there are ways to turn things around. Smoking, heavy drinking, and physical ...
Ronnie McDowell gave the country music world one heck of a scare back in June when he suffered a stroke onstage while performing at a music festival in Pennsylvania.
According to Dr Limaye, the human body transforms alcohol into dangerous substances through its breakdown process, which ...
Prostate cancer is a serious disease that occurs in men. To raise awareness about it, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is ...