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Scott Gunderson Scott is a typical working father of three young children. His days are full of work meetings, play dates, golf games and helping manage his busy family’s calendar. He also is a ...

In telestroke, doctors who have advanced training in treating strokes remotely assess and diagnose people who have had a stroke and give treatment advice to emergency medicine providers. To do this, d...

Getting immediate medical attention after the first signs of a stroke increases the possibility that you may receive clot-dissolving therapies (such as TPA) or other clot-retrieving procedures in time...

Learn more about epilepsy with these facts: You can’t swallow your tongue during a seizure. It’s physically impossible. You should never force something into the mouth of someone ...

Medications are typically the first line of treatment for patients with epilepsy. However, vagus nerve stimulation may be helpful if you continue to struggle with breakthrough seizures. It has effect...

Doctors generally classify seizures as either focal or generalized, based on the abnormal brain activity. Focal seizures Seizures that appear to result from abnormal activity in just one area of your...

Chemotherapy works by killing rapidly dividing cancer cells. As it wipes out cancer cells, it also can destroy fast-growing healthy cells, which may cause side effects. Lower blood cell production You...

Chemotherapy works by killing rapidly dividing cells, including cancer cells. But chemotherapy can't tell the difference between cancer cells and other normal cells that also divide quickly, such as t...

Your doctor may use one or more approaches to diagnose cancer: Physical exam. Your doctor may feel areas of your body for lumps that may indicate a tumor. During a physical exam, he or she may l...

When first diagnosed with cancer, many people ask about their prognosis. You might want to know whether your cancer is relatively easy or more difficult to cure. Your doctor can't predict the future, ...