As with most treatments, cortisone injections can have side effects. These can include various kinds of headaches. Cortisone is a type of molecule known as a corticosteroid, or steroid for short.

Back injections can provide significant pain relief for some people. Doctors target specific locations in your spine and muscle to provide the most effective pain relief. If you have back pain that’s ...

Andrew Ward, a veteran and the founder of Acadiana Veterans Alliance, wants to reduce post-traumatic stress disorder and help end veteran suicide in Louisiana. Though it's not a miracle cure, with the ...

Wearable insulin pumps are offering many diabetes patients an alternative to daily injections. The devices can improve ...

While GLP-1 weight loss meds have been a mainstay in pop culture for a few years now, they're potentially about to get even more widespread. Formerly only available as an injection, Wegovy recently ...

As theorists from Samuel Coleridge to Kenneth Burke have noted, language often does our thinking for us. In health care, all too often, that leads to problems. In a particularly worrisome example of ...

If you're apprehensive about getting an intravitreal injection for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), you're not alone. Ophthalmologist Monika Fleckenstein, MD, explains the procedure, how it can ...

Under its former childhood vaccine schedule, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that kids get 12 different vaccines protecting against 16 diseases before age 10. It didn’t ...