WHEELING — It’s the “catch-22” of contemporary medicine: As access to legal opioids is restricted, drug users turn to dangerous illegal substances, such as heroin, with potential deadly results. To reduce misuse of narcotics, prescription painkillers have been reformulated and ...

If you’re in generally good health and are the type of person who doesn’t like to think of yourself as less capable than anyone else, you might have found that you started blaming other people for frequent miscommunication. This is very common. You may think others are not speaking ...

WHEELING — Anxiety over mosquito-borne Zika virus shows major public health concerns can come in very small packages. Although the local area is at low risk for mosquito-borne Zika infection, according to Howard Gamble, administrator of the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department, that ...

Dietary and exercise advice is plentiful these days, and trends can seem to trump well-established standards. For example, “Is it healthy to eat coconut and palm oils?” and “Are burst cardio workouts right for me?” are among the new considerations. Experts from The Howard Long ...

In the United States, nearly 800,000 people a year will suffer a stroke. About 690,000 of these strokes occur when a clot cuts off blood flow to a part of the brain. Stroke is the No. 5 cause of death in the country, killing about 130,000 people in the U.S. each year. However, education, ...

Many people face the challenge of balancing work and family. Workloads may be hefty on both fronts, and the pursuit of a healthy balance between home and career may seem like an unattainable goal. Stress can build from feelings of being pulled in too many directions. According to Mental ...