They're the cold cases of medicine, patients with diseases so rare and mysterious they've eluded diagnosis for years. ...more

May 20, 2008

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a "war on science." ...more

May 12, 2008

SUNCOAST NEWS STAFF REPORT Doctors have long known cooling is a way to protect body tissue from injury in people suffering heart attacks or similar medical emergencies. The ways doctors have been using to cool patients, however, can take hours to lower body temperature to a level at which tissue is protected. ...more

May 7, 2008

With 450,000 Alzheimer's disease patients, Florida has both a tremendous obligation and a unique opportunity to pursue research to make Alzheimer's a "disease of the past." ...more

May 2, 2008

A center specializing in brain, spinal and nerve-related injuries and illnesses soon will be under construction at Brandon Regional Hospital, enabling stroke patients and others to get specialized treatment closer to home. ...more

February 21, 2008

One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close as possible to normal might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similar international study has found no such risk. ...more

February 14, 2008

In an era when diagnostic medical tests can run into the thousands of dollars, her tools are fingers on a pulse. The body can reveal what ails it by its pulse, explains traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Kimberly Halsey. This 2,000-year-old system, which includes acupuncture and other forms of treatment, can offer relief for some of 2008's common health problems such as quitting smoking and weight loss. ...more

January 2, 2008

Lewd photographs of children were disappearing from adult bookstores. Child porn magazines in plain brown envelopes were no longer reaching customers through the mail. It was the early 1990s, and experts thought federal law enforcement efforts were ending child pornography. ...more

December 16, 2007

The popular diabetes drug marketed as Avandia may increase bone thinning, a discovery that could help explain why diabetics can have an increased risk of fractures. ...more

December 3, 2007

Every day, about 3,700 families in four countries play out a ritual orchestrated by a nondescript office in Tampa: Whatever their children eat, whenever they sneeze and sniffle, they are recording the evidence and waiting for the day a doctor may tell them their child has diabetes. ...more

November 11, 2007