Although total hip replacement is often an effective treatment option for osteoarthritis, some factors may affect how well patients recover from the surgery.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and epilepsy are two of the most common neurological conditions, and now researchers have found that having one may lead to higher risk for the other.

It’s hard to sleep restfully when you’re in pain. Researchers recently analyzed the quality of sleep in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Overweight and obesity are often associated with several different health problems later in life. But unhealthy people of normal weight could still be at risk.

The development of fertility treatments and in vitro fertilization (IVF) has offered tremendous new opportunities for individuals to become parents. But they came with unintended consequences too.

According to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), about 75 percent of adults don’t take their medications as prescribed. A new study looked at this issue in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Often, more care is not necessarily better care. For certain conditions, such as bronchiolitis in children, extra medications or other treatments may not help recovery.

Women having a mastectomy to treat breast cancer can opt to have immediate reconstruction. These surgeries use implants to reconstruct breast tissue that was removed during the mastectomy.

Many medical conditions do not come on suddenly but instead have warning signs first. Diabetes, for example, starts with increased insulin resistance.

There is a wide range of ways to look into the human body. Some of these involve higher costs and risks — especially for children — than others.