Andrew Schorr

Usually when a baby in the United States is being born everything goes well, although anyone who has been through it knows it’s a significant medical event and can be “exciting” in the last few ...

When all the dust settles, you may have a 10-year-old boy from McDonough, Georgia to thank for getting you relief for a chronic digestive problem. The boy is Ricky Springer and he has had ...

Three-year-old Rosie continues to astound her mother, Nicole Pallone of Starwood, British Columbia, Canada. Rosie was born with a rare metabolic condition called phenylketonuria or PKU, where her ...

In May, 2011, Rose Egge, a community news reporter in Seattle who was 25 at the time, went to the doctor. She’d been having back pain for months and it wasn’t getting better. She was finding ...

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances and millions of people are hooked. Many of them don’t want to be. They understand smoking is not good for your health and every puff brings you ...

I’ve just returned from an extended family trip throughout Spain. It was terrific, from Barcelona to Seville. On any trip, I’m sure you are like me, and “people watch.” On this trip one thing ...

Jill Heydenburg of Chicago, at 43, was used to being an active woman. She ate nutritious foods, exercised and usually felt great. But then fatigue set in. She'd go to work and go home and go to ...

Are you someone who feels down as fall turns to winter and when it can be dark and gloomy til after breakfast and then again before dinner? You are not alone. Millions of Americans -- and ...

Here in the United States we are in a high speed world. And when it comes to health problems we want a solution fast. Part of that is making sure we get the BEST solution that’s available ...

You’ve got a headache. Should you go to your family doctor, your gynecologist, a neurologist, or a brain surgeon? And, depending upon which office you head to, will your insurance cover it? Then, ...

As patients, more and more of us have much to be thankful for. In the most pronounced cases, we are actually living with a formerly terminal illness. Medical progress has made a difference for us ...

One day in April, 1996 a doctor, out of the blue, told me I had leukemia. "What happens now and how does it affect my future?" I thought, which most people who are diagnosed would ask. While ...

Your mother probably told you to sit up straight. Your gym teacher reminded you about keeping your shoulders back. Your dance teacher spoke about walking tall. But some kids can’t. They have a ...

I have never been a smoker. But people who have smoked tell me that quitting is one of the most difficult things they’ve ever done. Tobacco is just so addictive. Barack Obama knows too. Our ...

Being more powerful patients as we navigate increasingly complex health care systems is a priority for many of us. We want to be in control and want the tips that help us to be at our fingertips. ...

Ok, you have a job, you are busy with friends and family, and you may have kids. You are tired -- a lot. Could be not enough sleep, could be you are low on iron, OR it could be a hormone ...

A new national report is out and the use of antidepressant medications -- including those prescribed for anxiety -- is up 400 percent by Americans over the last 20 years. And 11 percent of ...

Where do you go for reliable, useful information about breast cancer now that we are in the age of hundreds of thousands of websites, Facebook pages and “tweets” on the subject? I am delighted ...

There are pink ribbons everywhere this month for breast cancer awareness. It’s politically correct for corporations to get behind this to be good corporate citizens and also to improve their ...

Lung cancer kills more women than any other cancer so you know not to smoke or to quit, if you do smoke. For colon cancer, screening -- usually beginning at age 50 -- can make a huge difference. ...

There is no shortage of celebrities who are captured naked or nearly naked by paparazzi who leverage photos for national exposure. My getting "naked" has inadvertently led to national ...

No doubt you’ve heard Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt teamed up to bring you a “bromance” of a movie called “50/50.” Levitt plays a Seattle public radio producer whose back pain turns out to ...

You are no doubt familiar with many consumer products used by millions. Most people buy the top selling detergent or shampoo or toothpaste. Some women buy the same outfit. And, unless you go to ...

At 33, Kim Allison was on top of the world. She had a college degree from Princeton and advanced medical degrees. She had a loving husband, and two small children, one only seven months old and ...

I heard an unforgettable singer recently as she gave hope to 600 cancer survivors at a banquet in Houston. I just had to share the inspiring story of this young woman with you because she’s sure ...

No one wants to talk about it. But it can get so bad you are afraid to go out of the house. And if you do, you need to chart where the bathrooms are along your route. And you may, even as a ...

Your mother has do’s and don’ts for you, your girlfriends do too. Maybe even your grandmother chimes in. What should you eat? Should you take vitamins? Can you still run or work out hard? What ...

There you are -- early in the morning, before the kids go to school, or your partner wakes up, or before you have to dress for work. You are running. Maybe it’s in the park, in your neighborhood, ...

At age 30, Karissa Barber Ma was on top of the world. She had fallen in love and celebrated it with a big wedding. She and her husband had so much to look forward to. But then, suddenly, their ...

It’s back-to-school time and, if you have children like I do, you need to form a relationship with the school nurse. It’s the same for elementary school or even college and the school levels in ...

You may or not be a football fan so you may not be aware that the new 10-year contract between the National Football League players and team owners had a lot to do with safety for the players and ...

When you develop cancer, which is made up of groups of defective cells that your own body manufactured, your immune system has let you down. The way it is supposed to work is like one of those bug ...

Since you are, no doubt, a health conscious visitor to EmpowHER, you just might be someone who has a television on while you exercise at home or at the gym. For me, I watch cable TV news during ...

If you found out you had a serious medical condition you would, of course, want the best treatment. For many illnesses, that starts with tried and true medicines or surgical approaches, but ...

I have previously written about my friend, small town mayor Jim Pearman, whose life was saved from a heart attack when he drove himself to a local fire station. He thought he was a goner in the ...

Eighteen years ago the wife of a highly respected Seattle oncologist died from ovarian cancer. I didn’t know Marsha Rivkin, but the people who did tell me she was dynamo. She left a hole in the ...

Greetings from the ninth floor of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. This Sunday some 3,500 people will run down below in their annual SummeRun for ovarian cancer, but I may still be stuck up ...

I just had the chance to interview a leading spine surgeon, as well as an active business executive who benefited from state-of-the-art surgery. The executive had lost his ability to play golf, ...

Today, we’re in an age of patient advocates, where people speak publicly—and all over the Internet—about serious medical conditions. It wasn’t long ago when the waiting rooms in doctor's ...

Recently, I interviewed Hope Bourne, a 911 dispatcher from Seattle. Over the past six years, Hope helped many pregnant women in the emergency throes of labor. She coached them over the phone while ...

My kids are all about the latest technology: the coolest, fastest smartphones, video games, computers, gadgets of every kind. “What will they think of next?” is the way we traditionally marvel ...

I live in the relatively small city of Mercer Island, Wash. Twenty-two thousand people live here where a floating bridge and the interstate connect us to Seattle three miles away. Having lived ...

You have heard the stories: the Starbucks barista who donates one of her two healthy kidneys to a customer who might die without a kidney transplant. The woman from Phoenix featured on the Today ...