For many people, the only obvious symptom of sleep apnea is fatigue or sleepiness during the day. If you often have any these symptoms, talk to your doctor about them. If your doctor suspects you ...

When a medication works right, it boosts your health or helps you feel better. But a drug can bring on problems if it doesn't mix well with something else you put into your body, like another ...

Vertigo is a sensation that you or the world around you is spinning. It's usually a symptom of a problem with the part of your inner ear or brain that keeps you balanced. Treating a connected ...

If the sadness and mood swings don't get you, the cramps and headaches just might. In fact, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects almost all women to some degree during their reproductive years. In ...

Wildfires and Mental Health: Community First, Then TherapyJust after a wildfire disaster, receiving good support from the community ranks high in aiding mental health, and opening up about ...

Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which you have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early. The condition can be short term (acute) or can last a long time (chronic). It may ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a serious mental health disorder. Its name is often misused to describe people who like things super-clean or arranged just so. But when you actually have ...

Headache Medicine: What Should You Take? Medicines can help you manage, prevent, or end headache pain. There are many different treatment options available. Some medicines relieve headache pain ...

Catatonic schizophrenia is one feature of a serious mental illness called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia prevents you from separating what’s real from what’s not, a state of mind called ...

What Is White Matter Disease? White matter disease is the wearing away of tissue in the largest and deepest part of your brain. The loss of white matter function has a number of causes, including ...

Caused by the same virus behind chickenpox, shingles is a painful nerve root infection resulting in a skin rash. What does the shingles rash looks like? Who’s at risk? And who needs the shingles ...

Take a look at the process of healing from a cut and how it starts as soon as skin is punctured. Before you spend time in the sun and sand, pack a few essentials in case of an emergency. These ...