Scott O’Reilly

November is lung cancer awareness month. More than 160,000 Americans will die from this condition every year. That’s more than the number who will...

Shakespeare wrote, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” That quote highlights how...

A migraine is a headache that packs such a wallop that it “feels like God just punched you in the face.” That description comes...

There’s no doubt about it, having a disease stinks. Most of the time we use an expression like that figuratively. But what if health...

During the Middle Ages, an epidemic known as “the black death” wiped out about a third of the human population. At the time, people...

Alexis is kind to others but in her chest beats the heart of a warrior," explains her father, Dean. He is talking about his...

Cindy doesn’t always take her medications as prescribed. That can be a problem because this twenty-something mother of three has been diagnosed with schizophrenia....

There’s a new performance-enhancing technique sweeping the NBA, but it is not the usual suspects (steroids, growth hormones or plasma-boosting therapies). Instead, several very...

It is tough enough seeing a young person battling a serious medical condition, but what if you have to fight tooth and nail to...

Life can seem bleak and unbearable when you are in the grips of anxiety and depression. Nearly everyone experiences bouts of deep unhappiness at...