Dr. Alexander Ly expertly places tiny needles into a patient's abdomen. He is guided by 50 years of experience and knows exactly the spot and depth each needle must go. Each is a signal to the brain ...

At age 17, Victoria Rust came down with pancreatitis, suffering waves of terrible pain that kept her hospitalized for much of last year. When the only medicine that was helping her caused stomach ...

One minute you’re engrossed in an activity. The next, your arm, hand, leg or foot is numb, tingling, burning or itching. This sensation, which many can relate to, is commonly called pins and needles.

After her MS diagnosis, Becky was worried her kids would have to care for her, but a stem cell transplant has changed the ...

MS zingers, or dysesthesia, are neuropathic sensations like pain, prickling, or electric shocks caused by nerve damage from multiple sclerosis. People living with MS can manage dysesthesia by avoiding ...

Taking breaks from a busy day at your desk is hard. But eventually, a grumbling stomach and heavy legs that feel like TV static looks are bound to forcibly eject you from your chair. After a walk and ...

Raynaud’s phenomenon is a relatively rare medical condition which causes a reduction of blood circulation to the fingers or toes when exposed to cold temperatures or during stressful situations. It is ...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce sufficient amounts of insulin to deal with the quantity of glucose and other carbohydrates entering the ...

Waking up in the morning is sometimes accompanied by the refreshing sensation of one’s hand being stabbed thousands of times by tiny needles. What exactly causes the “pins and needles” sensation? And ...

Father-of-two Luke Pickering thought little of it when he woke up with pins and needles in his hands one morning. Yet within 24 hours, the sensation had spread to his toes - and there was far worse to ...

Your body has millions of parts working together every second of every day. In this series, Dr. Jen Caudle, who is a board-certified family medicine physician and an associate professor at Rowan ...

I've always feared heights—always have and probably always will. But three years ago I found myself pressed against a cliff, more than 100 feet in the air, hanging on with my bare hands. The only ...