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Whether your child is on a recre­ation­al sports team or plays on a trav­el league, being a spec­ta­tor involves plan­ning ahead. From unex­pect­ed ways to stay hydrat­ed to tak­ing small breaks to move around, Fam­i­ly Med­i­cine Physi­cian, Kather­ine Par­en­ti, MD, shares tips on how to keep the whole team cheer­ing this season.

From fer­til­iza­tion to a nor­mal 40 week preg­nan­cy, your baby goes through a jour­ney of con­tin­u­ous growth and devel­op­ment. Our How Your Baby Grows guide helps you under­stand the changes tak­ing place by break­ing down every 4 weeks of your preg­nan­cy, from the ear­ly for­ma­tion of arms and legs, to the com­plex­i­ty of func­tion­ing organs.

After age 50, frac­tured bones present a major health threat for approx­i­mate­ly 50% of men and women (that’s right, men can be impact­ed as well). The cul­prit is a dis­ease called osteo­poro­sis and is char­ac­ter­ized by poor bone quality.

Dia­betes is the lead­ing cause of pre­ventable blind­ness in the Unit­ed States.

Radi­a­tion Ther­a­py, through the lin­ear accel­er­a­tor, com­bines imag­ing, beam deliv­ery and sophis­ti­cat­ed motion man­age­ment to accu­rate­ly and pre­cise­ly tar­get tumors with speed.

Kid­neys, although small and often over­looked com­pared to some of our oth­er vital organs, play a crit­i­cal role in fight­ing off infec­tions and main­tain­ing a healthy bal­ance in your body every day. One of their pri­ma­ry func­tions is to act as a fil­tra­tion sys­tem for your blood. Each kid­ney con­tains tiny blood ves­sels called glomeruli that sep­a­rate waste and remove excess water and oth­er con­t­a­m­i­nants from your blood. After pass­ing through your kid­neys, the fil­tered, ​“clean” blood re-enters your blood­stream and the waste is removed from your body through urine.

To the aver­age indi­vid­ual, a rash is just a rash. But to the trained eye, you may be deal­ing with an inflam­ma­to­ry skin con­di­tion called pso­ri­a­sis. This com­mon prob­lem affects up to three per­cent of Amer­i­cans. All races and both gen­ders can be affect­ed, with more adults car­ry­ing this diag­no­sis than chil­dren. So how do you know if you might be one of those peo­ple? The fol­low­ing signs may be help­ful to know:

Care­givers sac­ri­fice a lot for those they care for, but, often­times, neglect their own health in the process. Between help­ing with every­day liv­ing, man­ag­ing med­ical care and tak­ing care of house­hold activ­i­ties, it is no sur­prise that many care­givers feel men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly exhaust­ed over time. To help pre­vent symp­toms of ​“burnout”, we have com­piled tips to rec­og­nize care­giv­er fatigue in your­self and oth­ers, as well as how to prac­tice self-care in such a demand­ing role.

Learn about the com­mon symp­toms of depres­sion and what fac­tors may put you at high­er risk.

PTSD may devel­op after being the vic­tim of phys­i­cal harm, wit­ness­ing phys­i­cal harm or know­ing a loved one who suf­fered phys­i­cal harm. In order to be diag­nosed a per­son must have one re-expe­ri­enc­ing symp­tom, at least three avoid­ance symp­toms and at least two hyper­arousal symp­toms. Con­tin­ue read­ing to learn more about each symptom.