Stay positive!” Those are the two words a lifelong friend had texted me when I shared that something suspicious had appeared ...

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Jack Draper’s mid-match retirement against the reigning Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz was the result of a hip injury that ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO It can be tricky to pinpoint the cause of pain at the base of your skull, the area ...

MRI is a noninvasive medical test that uses magnets instead of radiation to take very detailed pictures of the body from many angles to help physicians diagnose ...

Edison High junior among those honored with Stephanie Schrock Courage Award at last month's Josh Palmer tournament.

When Ray Kohn started feeling pain in his knees and elbows in 2015, he attributed it to his work as a stunt driver and ...

It never crossed my mind that the painless lump in my leg could be anything harmful, let alone life-threatening.

For a long time it never crossed my mind that the painless lump in my leg could be anything harmful — it turned out to be a ...

Emily King of Mobile, Alabama, was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at the age of 27. She had experienced some diarrhea, abdominal pain and anemia, but having cancer had never entered ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most effective technologies to assess the innermost structures of the human ...