Sarah Bradley

Sometimes you have to pay attention to how you feel—not just how bad the cut looks.
Some cuts heal quickly while others take their sweet time—the location of the cut, how deep it is, what caused the injury, and how you treat the wound can all cause the healing process to take more or less time than usual.
A cut might not look pretty while it heals, but that doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong; as your skin recovers, it goes through a few stages involving different colors and textures ...

The chronic disease often starts with psoriasis—but not always.
Most people think of psoriasis as a skin condition marked by red, flaky, scaly patches of skin, but many people don't know that there is often another side to psoriasis: arthritis.
About 30 percent of people with psoriasis end up with psoriatic arthritis, according to the National Psoriatic Arthritis Foundation. The inflammatory arthritis condition affects a person's joints, tendons, and ligaments. Psoriasis and psoriatic arthrit...

No symptoms? Doing nothing is an option too.
Even though uterine fibroids are extremely common, what to do about them isn't exactly straightforward. Many factors go into the decision to treat these benign muscle tissue growths, from when and how to try removing or shrinking them to whether they even need to be treated in the first place.
"We think about 50% of women have them, but about 50% of those women aren't symptomatic," says G. Thomas Ruiz, MD, ob-gyn lead at MemorialCare Orange Coast M...

The condition can often look like run-of-the-mill back pain—but it shouldn't be ignored.
Up to 70% of adults around the world will suffer from back pain at some point in their lives, according to the World Health Organization. And while it's easy to brush off that constant ache in your posterior as just part of getting older, there could be a more serious explanation behind your pains.
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of inflammatory arthritis which primarily affects your spine—and leads...

"After years of dealing with debilitating migraines, I tried something very new."
I was sitting in my neurologist's office, as my doctor and I reviewed the long list of things we'd already tried to treat my chronic migraine—supplements and hard-to-pronounce drugs, abortive and preventative medications, near-misses and flat-out failures. Now, she was suggesting one more treatment option—a final push to get my head pain under control: injections.
I was about two years into my migraine journey a...

What to know about your choices after an RA diagnosis.
Getting a rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis can be overwhelming, but you don't have to panic. There are more treatments than ever to alleviate your symptoms, prevent worsening of your condition, and improve your quality of life.
Even better, your options span multiple categories of treatment, from medications and holistic remedies to physical therapy and surgery, meaning you can pick and choose with your doctor which treatments work bes...

How to know if you have them and when to seek treatment.
Hearing that you have a growth in your uterus is understandably unsettling. Although uterine fibroids are usually benign, they can be problematic—causing pain or heavy menstrual bleeding, says the federal Office on Women's Health (OWH).
In the US, as many as 26 million people of childbearing age have uterine fibroids, says the US National Library of Medicine. More than half of these people experience symptoms.
What exactly are uterine f...

To break the cycle of middle-of-the-night bathroom visits, consider why it might be that you urgently need to pee
If you're waking up repeatedly in the middle of the night to urinate, one of the biggest questions on your mind is probably why? We can't change or improve health-related problems if we don't know what's causing them, so pinpointing the source of your late-night urges to use the bathroom—also known medically as nocturia—is an important first step to reducing all those night waking...

The immune system is there to help us fight infection, but sometimes it wreaks more havoc than the disease itself.
The news cycle is heavily saturated with stress-inducing information about COVID-19, but one of the most worrying aspects so far has been the huge disparity in the way the novel coronavirus presents itself: Why do some people have no symptoms (or only mild ones), while others are so sick they require ventilation?
There isn’t a definitive answer, but many experts suspect our own i...