Health conditions

Dry eye is one of those conditions that sounds minor until you have it. Gritty eyes by mid-afternoon, blurring that clears when you blink hard, … Read more

Somewhere around the middle of pregnancy, a lot of women discover that rolling over in bed has become a negotiation. Stairs become a problem. Standing … Read more

People with Parkinson’s come to us looking for help living well with it, day to day, and that is something acupuncture and Chinese medicine have … Read more

A painful shoulder is one of the most common complications of stroke, and one of the most frustrating, because it arrives at exactly the point … Read more

Of all the things people carry after cancer treatment, fatigue is the one most often described as the surprise. The treatment ends, the appointments thin … Read more

Anti-nausea medication has changed chemotherapy. The drugs available to an Australian oncology unit today control sickness far better than anything available thirty years ago, and … Read more

Losing smell sounds minor until it happens. Food becomes texture, memories lose a dimension, and safety cues — gas, smoke, spoiled food — disappear. After … Read more

This page leads with the most useful thing on it: erectile difficulty is frequently the earliest sign of cardiovascular or metabolic disease, appearing years before … Read more

Male factor contributes to roughly half of fertility difficulty, and receives a fraction of the attention. If you are the partner who has not been … Read more

Shingles is bad enough. The nerve pain that can follow it — burning, electric, triggered by clothing brushing the skin — is worse, and it … Read more

Grief is not an illness and this page will not treat it as one. But it does live in the body — in the chest, … Read more