Herbal therapy is sometimes called botanical medicine. It uses plant-based remedies as medicine. Use these remedies carefully. Here are some things to remember.

This surgery is done to treat diseases of the digestive tract. It removes all of the large intestine. During the surgery, an opening (stoma) is made in your belly. When healed, waste collects in a pouch inside your body. It's then drained through a thin tube (catheter).

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory infection. It is caused by a virus. It usually spreads when a person comes in contact with droplets from coughs or sneezes of someone with the virus. The symptoms of measles happen about 8 to 12 days after coming in contact with a person with the virus.

Hyphema is bleeding in the front part of your eye.

This exercise stretches and strengthens your upper body.

If your cooling system fails, your body temperature can rise to very high levels. This is called heatstroke and it can be deadly.

Certain infections can spread from person to person. Read this sheet to better understand how this happens in the hospital.

Follow these tips when eating out to stick to your healthy eating plan.

Research clearly shows that most diets don't work. Even those of us who lose weight on a diet generally regain most or all of the weight within a couple of years. But the way most diets are set up often leads to failure.

A person with a neck or spine injury shouldn't move or be moved. The person should lie still and wait for an emergency medical team.