Why Helping Others Improves Your Health Giving to others isn’t just generous – it’s healthy and linked to longer life. Here’s what’s going on in your body when you help someone.

Headaches With Lupus Are Common. Are They Actually Migraine? More than half of Americans with the most common form of lupus regularly get headaches. New research now shows that these often are not just normal headaches.

19th-Century Doctors Prescribed a Dangerous Douche: Liquid Mercury Patients dabbed it on their sores or inhaled it. Doctors administered it using a device made by a French instrument-maker: a receptacle for holding the liquid mercury compound, with a green hose and attachments of various sizes for insertion into the vagina or urethra.

Experts: Lessons Learned From Patients With Psoriatic Disease Psoriatic disease can take a toll on physical and emotional well-being. Dermatologists highlight why it’s a tricky condition and what you can do to manage it.

Resources When You’ve Run Out of Ideas for Your Psoriatic Disease Learn about treatments and alternative therapies for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. You’ll also find ways to get support and connect with others.

The Insulin Coma Therapy Mystery Despite its serious risks and studies showing the therapy had no real medical value, as late as 1969, one leading textbook of psychiatry called insulin coma therapy “a landmark in psychiatric progress.” Why?

A Therapist’s Perspective A therapist talks about managing major depressive disorder (MDD): what to expect, strategies for dealing with setbacks, and when to talk to your therapist.

Managing MDD and Your Job Major depressive disorder (MDD) at work: tips, strategies, who to tell, what to do, and asking for accommodations.

Kids Are Learning, Even When They’re Not Paying Attention A new study shows that children’s apparent inability to pay attention may actually allow them to outperform adults and retain information that they were told to discard in ways that adults can’t.

Endometriosis Care in Transgender Adults Endometriosis isn’t only seen in cisgender women. Read about endometriosis signs, symptoms, and care in transgender people.

Using Ozempic for ‘Minor’ Weight Loss: Fair or Foul? Ozempic is already sometimes difficult to find. Now those who are using to drop a few pounds are making it harder for those who need it.

Grip Strength Is a Crucial Vital Sign Your Doc Has Never Taken Grip strength, at any age, reveals clues to your overall health, can red-flag future disease, and even help predict how long you’ll live. Here’s how to measure and improve it.

Long COVID Treatment Trials – Finally – Set to Start In December 2020, Congress approved $1.15 billion for the NIH to research and test treatments for long COVID. The new clinical trials are phase II, meant to test safety and effectiveness. But some advocates are concerned the process is still moving too slowly.

More Than 2 Million in U.S. Have Inflammatory Bowel Disease A groundbreaking study estimates nearly 1 in 100 Americans have inflammatory bowel disease and shines a light on the growing burden the disorder inflicts in the United States, where up to 56,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.

Women Increasingly Dying of Alcohol-Related Causes Researchers have known for several years that the sex gap related to alcohol use and complications is narrowing. Women are drinking more, engaging in more high-risk drinking, and increasingly developing alcohol use disorder.

Playing Through the Pain of Ulcerative Colitis Two-time Olympian and former professional soccer player Rosie White shares how she overcame ulcerative colitis on and off the field.

Multiple Myeloma and Your Relationships WebMD explores how multiple myeloma affects your relationships with family, friends, and significant others.

Olive Oil Is Having a Moment. Is It the Ultimate Superfood? Olive oil has been tied to lower risks of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s, and early death in general.

What to Know About Multiple Myeloma When you get a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, you may not even know what it is. Find out why this type of cancer is different from most others and what your treatment options look like.

‘I’m Too Young for This’: Life With an Early RA Diagnosis Thanks to early diagnosis and new treatment options, people with RA – even younger adults in the midst of career development, family-building, and active lives – can experience remission.