Please read the interview with a vaccine researcher before you recommend giving flu shots to 6-month-old babies. Ask yourself who benefits, the baby or the pharmaceutical company?

Baby Boomers — once the generation of peace and love — have evolved.

Jeff Holdren has had active MS for 12 to 15 years, the kind classified as progressive.

For this career woman with MS, some days bring pain and fatigue; on others, she doesn’t realize she has MS.

Patients with multiple sclerosis must renegotiate their lives. Those with secondary progressive MS have had few treatment options, but some are enrolling in the trial of a drug. And they say they decided to take a chance on hope.

At nearly 50, Madonna’s sculpted triceps are almost superhuman.

Virginia ranks fourth among states in public-health dollars received per resident from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a new report.

The Food and Drug Administration is looking at a possible link between suicide and the medicine because of a few reports they have gotten about people showing mood changes

At the University of Virginia Medical Center, the typical cancer patient visits no fewer than 13 different sites for X-rays, chemotherapy, surgery, visits with physicians, wig fittings and much more.

I am now breast cancer-free as of last week. I would like to know about the relay.

>>Why is one associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and not the other?

It’s easier to calculate calories when you eat foods that are easy to add right? That is how I feel at least. I am a calorie counter too and often find myself eating more of the same foods on a regular basis because I now have their calories memorized.

The midlife crisis. Some buy red sports cars; Kevin Uhl runs marathons.

About a quarter of a million people live in Central Virginia and population estimates for 2010 show that there will be fewer people under the age of 19 than those over 60.

Elaine Summers knows what she’s talking about when she speaks to patients about open heart surgery. She’s been through it twice.

The Virginia Department of Aging has awarded the Alzheimer’s Association of Central and Western Virginia $8,125 in additional funding for Alzheimer’s Demonstration Grant to States (ADDGS) services.