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Sleep disorders can cause comorbid ills and many medical conditions can disturb the yin-yang of sleep and waking. Take our sleep quiz to find out what you know about which comes first.

The neuroscience is clear-you can’t possibly get good at multitasking. It’s a myth. Rather than keep trying to improve the “skill,” why not try something different. Read on . . .

I treated my young patient with asthma "by the book" and alienated his mother as I did so. I didn’t have the time to really listen to what she really needed from me.

It's not a new formula, but the study was large and the results significant: almost 4 of 5 MIs may be preventable in men who adhere to 5 healthy habits we're all familiar with.

Sperm concentration, total sperm count, and percentage of spermatozoa with normal morphology are compromised. Whether semen quality is restored if alcohol intake is reduced remains to be seen.

The key to reining in this trend is to link this group to health services as early as possible. The key to linkage, in turn, is testing. A new study finds room for improvement in meeting CDC testing coverage recommendations.

A 50-year-old man wonders whether the many asymptomatic lesions he has had for “almost all my life” can be removed. What are these lesions?

Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with a spectrum of morbidity, from daytime sleepiness to increased risk for vascular disease. Early symptoms aren’t always obvious. Test your diagnostic skills with our OSA quiz.

A 62-year-old man with a persistent snoring problem presented for an oral medicine consultation. Examination revealed very slight facial asymmetry. A sagittal series of tomograms was obtained. What do these findings suggest?

There is a strange healing power in a doctor's words that has allowed doctors to be useful over the millennia even when their treatments were ineffective or harmful. Reduced fear and renewed hope are wonderful medicines.

Chronic pain and psychological interventions, complex regional pain syndrome, spinal fractures and low back pain, acute gouty arthritis, Chiari I malformation, Dengue fever, erythema nodosum-a look at pain in its many shapes, sizes, and locations.

Asymptomatic lesion on back; impaired fertility in overweight or obese men; herpes zoster complications . . . Can you answer the 5 questions in this quiz?

Men who get more exercise during the week are less likely to experience nocturia, according to one of the first studies to look at the relationship between physical activity and this specific lower urinary tract symptom in men.

Even the mundane irritants of daily life may be harmful to men's health according to research from Oregon State University's Center for Health Aging Research.

Rushing down a flight of hardwood stairs wearing socks lands a 38-year-old man on his back and then in the ED for evaluation of back pain that prohibits walking. Can you spot the problem on the x-ray?