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How bad is the flu season? Doctors are Googling the answer
All parents like to think that their baby is unique — the cutest, brightest, most engaging infant ever born. And one way parents seek to reflect their child’s uniqueness is by bestowing them with equally distinctive, sometimes weird, names.
Getting pregnant and having a baby can turn the most confident woman into an uncertain, anxiety-wracked ball of nerves. There are questions like this: is the pain in my belly a sign of my uterus expanding or of impending miscarriage? And, once the baby arrives, this: What is this rash? What is this fever? And [...]
We’ve all done it. We’ve typed “soreness, upper left arm” into Google, WebMD or one of the other myriad encyclopedic medical resources available on the Internet, only to be informed that we could be suffering from a strained muscle — or bone cancer.
Google is the encyclopedia of all things. It maps your known universe, from your childhood home to the constellations above your head. Now it also gives you a window to the inner workings of your body.
Google recently teamed up with the Department of Health and Human Services to create a map function that will let you find out where you can get both H1N1 and seasonal flu shots by simply entering in your zip code or home town. The recently launched “flu shot locator” is still in initial phases, and [...]
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
