Roughly 80% of people will experience pain in the lower back that is significant enough to limit activity. Here's what you can do and how you can treat it.
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Cool Science Radio speaks with Jeffrey Rosenbluth, a spinal cord specialist at the University of Utah's Rehabilitation Center. Rosenbluth is the founder of Tetradapt, which creates biotech innovations so those...
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Heartburn by itself is fairly easy to understand, being simply a painful burning in chest or throat due to acid from the stomach that moves upward into the esophagus.