Abdomen

Two years ago, the Student Government Association at Francis Scott Key High School came up with a fundraising idea that has bumped and spiked its way into an annual tradition. The third annual charity volleyball tournament, "Spike Out Sarcoma" will be...

Each and every one of us has to make choices throughout the normal day-to-day living. Every once in a while we are faced with a very difficult decision that may even affect the lives of many people around us. Certainly, as veterinarians, many of our...

Second of four parts I didn't spot Clarence Hardin walking around downtown South Bend anymore, after he had apparently left his apartment there. But I had no idea where to look for him. A couple of years passed. Every once in a while, the publisher...

Lindsay Pinieski said she was devastated a little more than a year ago when her husband, Zack, was diagnosed with cancer. But things started to look brighter after chemotherapy treatments drove the disease into remission. The Hagerstown family’...

Have you ever thought of using a folding chair when performing abdominal crunches? Try it. You'll find that it's a comfortable way to focus on contracting your abs without feeling pressure on your back. 1. Place an open-back chair or bench on a flat,...

Ron Smith went on WBAL radio Thursday, just as he has for the past 27 years. But the conservative talk-show host, who was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, opened his show telling listeners — with characteristic bluntness — that he...

When Jim Donovan learned that his longtime friend Jaqui MacMillan had a tumor the size of a watermelon in her abdomen and was in need of a costly operation, he knew that he had to do something to help. Donovan, a founding member of the band Rusted Root...

Laguna Beach accountant Jeffrey Ross was a fit 54 when a sudden pain in his abdomen caused him to pass out and sent him down a course of medical investigation that led to a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, a 12-hour surgery, and a grim prognosis that he...

El jefe del comando estratégico operacional de las fuerzas armadas afirmó el viernes que la estabilidad del país "está garantizada" a pesar de la enfermedad del presidente Hugo Chávez, quien la víspera reconoció que padece cáncer. El general en jefe...

A wire snakes from the EKG monitor, swoops past the rolling cart with the chocolate milk and orange wedges, up the bed, past the pink teddy bear and around Sarah's thumb. Inside Room 504 at Rush Children's Hospital, the EKG monitor blips. Sarah's heart...

If you're carrying a few extra pounds, you're not alone. But this is one case where following the crowd isn't a good idea. Carrying extra weight - especially belly fat = can be risky. Michael Jensen, M.D., an endocrinology specialist at Mayo Clinic,...