BOSTON — Dr. Mallika Marshall is answering your medical questions. Norma on Facebook is wondering if her medication is causing muscle cramps, asking "I get really bad muscle cramps at night. I take ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 63-year-old man taking 20 mg of rosuvastatin a day, and my blood showed that my total cholesterol level was 136 mg/dL; my HDL was 47 mg/dL; and my LDL was 70 mg/dL. I was then ...

YouTuber and physician Rohin Francis, MBBS, searches for an explanation to a common medical problem he suffers from: cramps. The following is a partial transcript of this video; note that errors are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A muscle spasm, also known as a cramp, twitch or charley horse, is the sudden and involuntary forced contraction of a muscle.

Most of us take our medications without much thought about what they might be doing in the background. You take the pill, it does the job you need it to do, and you move on with your day. That’s the ...

For athletes across all sports, few experiences are as agonizing as being forced to leave competition with a sudden muscle cramp. These painful, uncontrolled spasms—formally known as ...

High school fall sports teams will begin their official practices soon — including double sessions for football. While a warm August may be a wonderful time of year to swim and kayak, it may not offer ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 63-year-old man taking 20 mg of rosuvastatin a day, and my blood showed that my total cholesterol level was 136 mg/dL; my HDL was 47 mg/dL; and my LDL was 70 mg/dL. I was then ...