Over the past decade, a strange practice has worked its way into physical therapy offices. It’s not exactly acupuncture but still involves a therapist sticking tiny needles under your skin and letting ...

Having tiny needles poked into a painful muscle knot is unnerving. But can it help? By Andrea Javor Over the past decade, a strange practice has worked its way into physical therapy offices. It’s not ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that is thought to have a significant link to genetics. As this disease progresses, neurons stop functioning properly, leading ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical Solutions for Back ...

The connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer risk has been clear for decades — but what about marijuana? As more U.S. states legalize recreational cannabis, new and developing research ...

A new study published in the journal Science Immunology suggests that men are less likely than women to experience chronic pain in general, and that their pain is less persistent because testosterone ...

Stellato and Hudson join host Robin Young to share their stories, their challenges as women with ALS, and their memories of Stavenhagen, whose legacy they hope to preserve. Shelly Stellato: “I was ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

One distinct hallmark of ALS is the dysfunction of a tiny protein called TDP-43. This protein normally lives within a cell’s nucleus, but in the case of ALS, it becomes dysfunctional, migrates out, ...