Pre-Walk Basics
Maximize the benefits of your walk before you take the first step — a proper warm-up revs your body for optimum performance and reduces risk for injury. Recent research suggests your body may respond...
Your Health. Your Lifestyle. Vitamins and Minerals
Are Weekend Migraines a Myth?
Some people experience weekend migraines; experts theorize this phenomenon may be due in part to changes in sleep and diet patterns, stress levels, and caffeine. But some studies suggest it’s a myth — and...
Fast Food for Your Health
If you’re always on the run and rely on fast food restaurants for your meals, we have some good news. You can eat fast food and still eat healthy. Victoria Johnson, Fitness/Sports Nutrition Expert,...
Fearless Speaking
For many people, the number one fear is not snakes, spiders, or even the dentist. It’s public speaking. Here’s a woman who can help you survive getting up in front of a crowd. Not...
Can Money Buy Happiness?
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.” David Myers, Ph.D., a professor at...
The Search For Happiness
Philosophers from the early centuries onward have long been captivated by the search for happiness. Their theories have been varied throughout the years, but they all believed they had ultimately solved the mystery. Ancient...
Fetal Monitor
In almost one third of all childbirths, doctors and parents have a period of uncertainty due to an abnormal heart rate pattern in the fetal monitor. Doctors traditionally scrape the baby’s scalp, while still...
Brain Tumor Vaccine
Brain tumors remain one of the toughest cancers to cure. The number of patients with brain cancer is on the rise, and for those with the most aggressive form, glioblastoma multiforme, the outlook is...
Virtual Pharmacy
With Americans spending $230 billion a year on prescription drugs and other health care items, it’s no surprise someone’s come up with a faster way to help them do it. Pharmacist Scott fills prescriptions...
Liver Failure Life Support
When a kidney fails, patients can stay alive with dialysis machines. For failed hearts, there are pacemakers; for lungs, ventilators. For people whose livers fail each year, there is no mechanical life support, and...
Kidney Cancer Promise
Each year about 30,000 Americans will be diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer. Nearly 60 percent will die from it. Now doctors at UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center have...
Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is often deadly. Women may have few symptoms, and more than 50 percent of patients are first told they have cancer when the disease is already at an advanced stage. Researchers in...
Smarter Pap Smears
The pap smear revolutionized the way women are tested for cervical cancer, but the test is less than perfect. In some studies false-negatives have run as high as 50 percent. Doctors have boosted the...
Multiple Sclerosis Drug
Researchers believe they may have found a drug that reduces the number and severity of attacks in multiple sclerosis patients. The new drug slows the progression of the disease which leads to crippling disabilities....
Borderline Diabetes
Approximately 800,000 Americans will be told they are diabetic. They will join the 16 million Americans who already suffer from the disease. These diabetes patients risk debilitating complications such as blindness, kidney disease and...
Finding Sex Therapy
People continue to be misinformed and uneducated about sex therapy. A good therapist will tell you what they do, not what they don’t do. Following are some tips and questions you can ask a...
Lack of sexual desire
Before considering a sex therapist or any kind of counseling, women may want to do some self-assessment. While therapists and physicians will ask many of these questions, there’s no substitute for self-knowledge. Are you...
CUSA For Endometriosis
Fifteen percent of all women will be diagnosed with endometriosis before reaching menopause. It occurs when tissue that lines the uterus grows outside the uterus. For women with severe endometriosis, surgery using lasers is...
Help is a call Away
A simple phone call could be all it takes to help depressed patients reduce their symptoms. Researchers from Group Health Cooperative’s Center for Health Studies in Seattle studied 600 depressed patients. They tested two...
Chronically ill Children Appear Resilient
New research shows children with chronic illnesses may not suffer from as many long-term psychological effects as previously thought. Researchers from Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio studied 125 children with sickle cell disease, juvenile...
Treatment for Late-Life Depression
New research suggests that a collaborative intervention program called Improving Mood-Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) is more beneficial for the treatment of depression in seniors than usual depression care. According to researchers, “Major...
Treatment Effective for Binge Eating Disorder
A new study shows a shorter treatment program is just as effective as a more intense program for treating binge eating disorder. Binge eating disorder affects approximately 2 percent of the general population. It...
Herb not Effective for Depression
The herb St. John’s wort is commonly used as an anti-depressant, but new research shows it is not as effective for moderately severe depression as once thought. Researchers from Duke University studied 340 patients...
MENTAL DISORDERS IN YOUNG PEOPLE
According to the Center for Mental Health Services, “At least 1 in 10″ or as many as 6 million young people — may have a ‘serious emotional disturbance.’ This term refers to a mental...
Trends in Treating Depression
Though the number of people using antidepressant medication is increasing, the number of those using psychotherapy to help battle depression is going down. In 1987, the federal government started a health campaign to teach...
Behavior Therapy for Crime Victims
A new study shows victims of crime who resolved their sleep disturbances also showed an improvement in anxiety and depression associated with post traumatic stress disorder. Researchers in New Mexico recruited 62 participants to...
Suicide Rates In Children
Teen suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents. More teens die from suicide each year than from cancer. A new study shows many doctors aren’t doing enough to recognize the warning...
Placebo Effect
At the turn of the century, they called it “snake oil” and it cured what ailed you. Or did it? And what about modern-day pills and potions and medical treatments? Do they work? More...
Cyberspace for Medical Answers Juvenile Arthritis
Nine-year-old Alana has a lot of fun playing computer games. Computers also give her father, Gerold the latest medical research to fight Alana’s juvenile arthritis. Gerold found what he needed in the world’s largest...
Pricking Away Pain
Americans who suffer from depression have the choice of seeking psychotherapy, taking anti-depressant drugs or both. A team of Tucson researchers think they’ve found one more way to relieve the blues. Rose, Depression Study...