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Guidelines for sites linking to mayoclinic.orgA sore throat, chronic cough and bronchitis that just won't go away. Think you might have last winter's lingering cold? Maybe. But doctors at Mayo Clinic say for some people, those symptoms might actually be caused by acid reflux.
Resource: Treatment of Acid Reflux
Many people who have an aortic dissection -- a tearing of the lining of the artery carrying blood from your heart -- think they're having heart attacks. And by the time they get the proper treatment, it's often too late. Surgery for this condition is nothing short of amazing.
Resource: Aortic Dissection Surgery
Ask just about any of the 8 million people who're addicted to smokeless tobacco and they'll likely tell you: it's harder to quit chewing than it is to quit smoking.
Resource: Nicotine Dependence Center
What is peripheral vascular disease? It's a decrease in blood flow to your legs caused by blockages in the arteries. Doctors at Mayo Clinic are using a new, minimally invasive procedure to open those blockages, keeping people out of the hospital and enjoying life.
Resource: Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease
Doctors at Mayo Clinic are studying acupuncture to see how it helps people who've been stuck in the hospital for weeks on end. People like the young woman you're about to meet who had not one, but two heart transplants.
Resource: Heart Transplant Program
For the first time, Mayo Clinic has put its name on an eating philosophy that's more than just a diet. It's a healthy lifestyle that results in a healthy weight.
Swollen glands. If you've ever had a bad cold, you've probably had them. Those tender little glands under your jaw are a sign that the white blood cells in your lymph nodes are working to fight the infection. So most of the time swollen glands are a good thing. But if they don't hurt and don't go away, they could be a sign of something more serious.
Resource: Treatment of Cancer
A new study at Mayo Clinic shows that a specific type of behavior therapy called exposure therapy can help reduce children's obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms more than medications.
Resource: Psychiatry and Psychology
Can a pregnant woman get the lifesaving chemotherapy she needs without harming her unborn child? Doctors at Mayo Clinic have the answers.
Resource: Treatment of Breast Cancer
Doctors at Mayo Clinic say a new device is helping women with urge incontinence avoid embarrassing moments.
Resource: Treatment of Incontinence
Research shows nicotine replacement therapy helps. But which type works best? The patch, nasal spray, nicotine gum?
Resource: Stop Smoking
Let's go to Mayo Clinic to learn how one woman is being proactive in preventing breast cancer -- the disease that took her mother's life.
Resource: Treatment of Breast Cancer
It's a fact of life for most women of childbearing age. The monthly cycle. About half of all women breeze through it with few symptoms. For the other half cramps can be a nuisance. And for 8 percentof those women who get cramps, menstrual symptoms can be so severe that they miss at least a day of work every month.
Resource: Treatment of Gynecologic Disorders
Every year, 1 million people in the United States are diagnosed with basal cell or squamous cell carcinomas. Skin cancer. These non-melanoma skin cancers usually don't kill, but they can destroy tissue if they're not removed.
Resource: Treatment of Skin Cancer
You don't have to be able to run a marathon or be a professional athlete to be fit. A new book explains that for most people, no matter how old you are or what medical conditions you might have, there are exercises that will improve your level of fitness and quality of life.
Resource: Sports Medicine
Research shows that approximately 30,000 people in the United States commit suicide each year. But for certain groups of people the suicide rate is higher. One such group is people with schizophrenia.
Resource: Psychiatry and Psychology
He was young, in college, with a great girlfriend and a future career. But then he got hit with a potentially deadly cancer. The chances of beating the disease were fair, but only if he had surgery and heavy doses of chemotherapy - a treatment with many side effects including the possibility of becoming sterile.
Doctors at Mayo Clinic are starting a new program called the Healing Enhancement Program. The goal is pain-free open heart surgery. This includes medications, but it also includes complementary therapies like massage.
Resource: Cardiac Surgery
Doctors at Mayo Clinic are implanting a device into patients' brains that stops the shaking and gives people a second chance at life.
Resource: Treatment of Essential Tremor
The man you're about to meet was virtually dead when he arrived at the E.R. Not breathing. No pulse. He was blue. How did Arish Rountree beat the odds?
Resource: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Almost everyone gets foot pain at sometime or another and it can last for weeks. Some people say wearing magnetic insoles in your shoes helps. Doctors at Mayo Clinic did a study to find out whether that's true.
Resource: Orthopedic Surgery
Up to 30 percent of Raynaud's sufferers develop a disease called scleroderma. It causes your skin to become tight, and can even damage internal organs.
Resource: Scleroderma
Imagine standing in a room with eight female friends or family members. Statistics show that one of them will get breast cancer in her lifetime
Resource: Treatment of Breast Cancer
It's a disease that slowly suffocates you. The symptoms mimic those of emphysema, but it's very different. And it only strikes women of childbearing years.
Resource: Pulmonary Medicine
Occasional heartburn after a big meal is usually nothing to worry about. But if you get heartburn a lot, say, once a week, it could damage your esophagus and in rare cases, cause cancer.
Resource: Treatment of Heartburn
For many years, doctors have been using the vibrations of ultrasound to diagnose and even treat many conditions. Now research shows that the vibrations of a harp may help improve the condition of people nearing the end of life.
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