Inflammation

Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com May 21, 2012 Q: My school-age children have been sick with colds lately and, because of conflicting information in the news, I'm still unsure about which over-the-counter...

PHILADELPHIA — Call it a move based on his gut because it surely couldn't have been based on numbers. With the bases loaded and the Phillies trailing the Red Sox by four runs in the eighth inning of Sunday's series finale, Philadelphia manager...

A Miami doctor made headlines recently, and some waves, when he introduced to America his feeding tube diet, promising to help patients drop 10 percent of their weight in 10 days. But the so-called K-E Diet is hardly South Florida's only flirtation...

Dear Pharmacist: Last month, you wrote about herbal teas, specifically marshmallow root. You shocked me when you said this herb is "soothing to the mouth, esophagus and digestive tract; great for people with heartburn." I've been hurting for years and...

When Tamika Morgan developed red irritated eyes in the fall of 2010, she wasted no time heading to an optometrist at a local retail store who gave her drops for pink eye. Her eyes got worse over the next few days so she went to a local hospital to see an...

Q. I have a Baker's cyst in my right knee. It has been drained twice and recurred. Are there any other treatments for it? A. Your situation is fairly common. A Baker's cyst (also called a popliteal cyst) is a fluid-filled sac that can develop in the...

Maybe your wrists and fingers swell when you leave work. Or maybe they ache or go numb in the middle of the night. Sounds as if you've been messing with your carpal tunnel — that tiny tunnel in your wrist where the median nerve, flexor muscles...

As spring gives way to summer, a new generation of wildlife will be making an appearance alongside their mothers. The Pennsylvania Game Commission, doctors and veterinarians want to remind everyone to use common sense when crossing paths with any type of...

PHILADELPHIA — It's all in the shoes. "I'm wearing a 10 1/2 now," Placido Polanco said when asked what changes he's made in his last nine games, a stretch during which he's hitting.333. The smile he flashed when he joked about his shoes was one of...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What could cause a cough that lasts for months? I take antihistamine tablets and use nasal saline spray, but still cough throughout the day and at night. ANSWER: Coughing is a normal reaction to irritants in your respiratory system....

Inflammation in her right arm has kept Winter Springs' Kiersten Coffman from pitching for more than a week. A bruised biceps muscle has shelved Pine Castle Christian's Kaley Bitterman. Eustis pitcher Rebecca Thornton missed two weeks with tendinitis in...

To us, it seems that many dietary supplements are falling out of fashion in favor of real food. For example, every day some new study says that multivitamins are no competition for a healthy diet. Some supplements even have a deleterious effect when...