Health Matters

The long-term price to be paid for the profits accompanying marijuana legalization has yet to be calculated.

Cognitive decline can be devastating and scary.

Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) is a protein produced by prostate cells.

You’ve heard about those young, ultra-fit people who suddenly have a heart attack.

In vitro fertilization, or IVF — the joining of human eggs and sperm in the laboratory to create embryos that are frozen for future implantation into the uterus — is used increasingly in some otherwise infertile women.

Not long ago, weight-loss medications were frowned upon by physicians and patients alike.

Often at Mass, we pray for the “respect of life from conception to natural death.”

When a patient wants to speak with me about diet changes, our conversation might traditionally go something like this: Me: How are you eating these days? Patient: Generally healthy. Me: Okay, take me through what you ate yesterday. Patient: Um… Eggs for breakfast. No wait, a bagel.

Alzheimer’s disease, or AD, is the leading cause of neurodegenerative dementias, affecting many patients as well as families who want the best treatment for their loved ones.

I work in geriatrics. For many years, when my older patients would tell me they were getting only five or six hours of sleep and waking up feeling refreshed, I would respond by saying, "Sure. That’s part of the normal aging process and to be expected."

This season, you may have heard a lot about respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as RSV. What is it, and why is it getting so much attention now?

What if a drug that works for most people turned toxic in your body because of your genetic makeup? ...

As the cold weather of winter descends upon much of the United States, millions of Americans will start — or intensify — their daily scratching frequency.

If I could have a megaphone and shout one message from the mountaintop, it would be this: eat well, sleep enough, and exercise regularly.

Your doctor doesn’t have to tell you to eat well, sleep enough, and exercise regularly. You already know this.

“I can’t see to put on makeup!” “I can’t see the food on my plate!” “I can’t see the dashboard!” “I can’t see my cell phone!” People who say such things may be suffering from presbyopia.

Ethics consultations is a service that provides clarity, guidance, and support based on solid ethical principles in clinical situations where there are competing perspectives about what should or should not be done for a patient.

The gallbladder is a small organ attached to the liver that stores and releases bile into the intestines.

One in every 5-10 patients seeing a family physician complains of fatigue, and one in every 10-20 Americans has hypothyroidism.

Each year, Healthnetwork Foundation honors a select group of our partner physicians with Service Excellence Awards to thank them for their superb service and recognize them for their groundbreaking contributions to medicine.