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If you live with MS, summer isn’t just uncomfortable; it’s an active management challenge. A warm afternoon, a hot shower, a short walk in direct sunlight: any of these can tip your body temperature just enough to trigger a wave of symptoms that weren’t there an hour ago. For a lot of patients, this is…

Summer nights have a reputation for being relaxed – open windows, late dinners, an easy pace. For a lot of people, though, the reality looks different: tossing and turning, waking up at 3 am drenched in sweat, and dragging through the next day on fumes. Summer sleep problems can feel like a minor seasonal annoyance….

Every summer, Texas heat sends people to the ground. A construction worker slides down against his truck. A grandmother waiting in line goes pale and drops. A teenager mowing the lawn wakes up on the grass with no memory of falling. Most of the time, this is heat syncope, a brief fainting spell tied to…

A new prescription for cholesterol, blood pressure, or a routine infection rarely comes with a warning that it might affect the brain. Yet drugs that affect the brain are far more common than most patients realize. Dizziness after starting a blood pressure medication, a fine tremor weeks into an antidepressant, or a fog that settles…