The small lifestyle choices we make each day add up when it comes to heart health. In a new two-pronged study being presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session, people who spent less time watching TV and regularly ate an energy-rich breakfast showed significantly less plaque and stiffness in their arteries,
After decades of increasingly complicated insomnia fixes, this one little thing changed everything. For most of my life, I have been unlucky in sleep. Falling into slumber has never been a problem, but if I toss just a little too hard in the wee hours, all bets are off. Once awake, I will lay there
The American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration rule changing criteria for family-planning grant money in ways sought by anti-abortion activists. The new rule, announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, would prohibit family planning clinics funded by the federal Title
When I was a kid, it seemed like every kid got the measles at some time. For families with multiple kids, sometimes it would spread through the house like wildfire and then there were families where only one child at a time got sick with the measles. I had two older brothers and younger sister,
Our mental health often feels like a mystery. A cheerful mood can inexplicably give way to sad or scary thoughts. Even though we might try to manage our emotional well-being through things like talk therapy, self-care apps, meditation, and medication, it’s easy to feel like contentment remains just beyond our grasp. Yet scientific research suggests
Last summer I wrote about how so many seniors are struggling to find ways to afford their prescriptions. It’s a stark reality that as many of us age, more things begin to go wrong and we end up having to take more and more medications in order to try to preserve our health. For most
We hear a lot about breast cancer but how much do we really know that explains what we hear? Do you know the different types of breast cancer or what the different stages really mean? According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is broken down into 2 main categories – in situ and invasive.
For the past couple of years, there has been an abundance of advertisements for a supplement called Prevagen. In their advertisements and on their website, they claim: “Research on Prevagen’s Main Ingredient” “Some age related issues may be unwanted, such as the normal memory loss associated with aging. The main ingredient in Prevagen, apoaequorin, was
Over the past couple of decades, the incidence of autism has increased at a dramatic rate. According to Autism Speaks who used statistics from the CDC, the rate of children with autism was only 1 in 166 children back in 2004. In 2006, it was 1 in 150. In 2008 it was 1 in 125.
Once we reach 50, our doctors begin urging us to get screened for colon cancer. After all, it is one of the more common forms of cancer and one of the more curable forms of cancer. According to the American Cancer Society: “Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in
