Manny Alvarez

In 2010, we brought you the story of Aldi Rizal, a 2-year-old Indonesian boy who picked up the horrific habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day. Since that story went viral, I had hoped that some form of child protective services in Aldi’s home country would react and place this child in a safer environment. But of course, that didn’t happen.

Today, I received a question from a man who wanted to know if he could eat his way to attractiveness. Here’s my answer

Jim Kelly is currently battling a second recurrence of oral cancer and has been scheduled to undergo surgery in an attempt to control the disease.

A Brooklyn tattoo artist sparked controversy this week after posting a picture of the new ink he gave his passed out pooch on Instagram – and with good reason.

One of the most precious gifts you can give to yourself and others, is the gift of health. To me, Mother’s Day is the perfect time to consider making some changes to your life.

The first time finding a cure for cancer ever showed up on the presidential radar was in the early 1970s, when President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act.

On March 30, 1981, 25-year-old John Hinckley Jr. opened fire outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C., shooting then-President Ronald Reagan in the chest, while also gravely wounding Press Secretary James Brady in the head and striking a police officer and Secret Service agent.

A recent report from the Washington Post analyzes whether advanced technological robots in the operating room offer any real benefits to prostate cancer patients and surgeons in the U.S.

In the early 1900s, radium-laced water was marketed as a promising elixir that could cure anything from arthritis to impotence to aging skin.

If you have a nut allergy, avoiding nuts can be a difficult task.

Nearly everyone has those self-conscious quirks through high school and college.

You’ve been trained from a young age to avoid fat.

Juicing seems to have reached a new height of trendiness.

New research holds out hope for those suffering from an insidious and debilitating illness known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).

We still have a long way to go this season until we’re in the clear.

Politicians advocating for late-term abortion are not thinking about the consequences of their actions. To legislate clinical indications for elective abortion into the third trimester is really political malpractice.

Last year, Kaylynn Knull and Tom Schwander were enjoying a relaxing vacation in the Dominican Republic when the couple started experiencing alarming symptom

The medical team wanted to use cartilage from Burrage’s ribs to form a new, non-artificial ear.

Dr. Manny answers a concerned mother’s questions about salmonella.

Dr. Manny explains the dangers bacterial meningitis may pose for young adults.