Back pain is often blamed on poor posture, long hours of sitting, or an old mattress. But sometimes, it can be more than just a muscular issue. In certain cases, persistent or unexplained back pain ...

Prostate cancer, an uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system located below the bladder, is one of the most common cancers that affects men, especially in ...

A 60-year-old man with a significant smoking history and breast cancer presented to the emergency department with severe back and left lower extremity pain. Clinical evaluation revealed metastatic ...

Canavan’s back pain led to a leukemia diagnosis after months of misdiagnoses. The 16-year-old is now undergoing a two-year ...

Mary Sage lay frozen in place, in such severe pain she couldn’t will herself off the chiropractor’s table. It was 2015, and Sage, then a 56-year-old program operation analyst at the University of ...

Many women are afflicted by post-mastectomy pain syndrome, which spans from uncomfortable to disabling and can last years. It ...

A Miami doctor was put on professional probation after, the state said, failing to investigate a regular patient’s serious ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...