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What runs in your family? Talking turkey about health
- Home & Family, Health & Healing
- November 26, 2013
What do you talk about around the Thanksgiving dinner table? This story from November 2013 is every bit as relevant today. Then Surgeon General, Boris Lushniak, reminded us that it’s a good time to talk about your family’s history of diseases and any other information that can help you keep your loved ones healthy, as the holiday has been declared National Family History Day.
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Journaling for emotional and physical health
- Health & Healing
- November 3, 2013
Did you know that keeping a journal can improve your overall well-being? “I’ve found it’s a good way to deal with anxiety. Sometimes, it’s just a good way to dump anger,” explains creative writing teacher Kathleen Coudle-King, who has written in a journal before bed for 20 years. In his book, “Writing to Heal,” social
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Does your brain take out the trash while you sleep?
- Health & Healing
- October 21, 2013
We know that sleep helps us to learn and remember things better, but a new study by the University of Rochester Medical Center has found that it also helps our brain to clean out any liquid waste. The study also shows that our brain cells actually shrink while we’re asleep, which allows more room for
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Study shows ICU patients often suffer long-term brain impairment similar to concussions, Alzheimer’s disease
- Health & Healing
- October 13, 2013
Many patients who have stayed in the intensive care unit (ICU) end up leaving with brain dysfunction, a new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found. Dr. Pratik Pandharipande, a professor of anesthesiology and critical care at Vanderbilt Medical Center explains, “As survival has increased from critical illness based on modern medical therapies, we
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Why Hospitals Want Patients to Ask Doctors, ‘Have You Washed Your Hands?’
- Health & Healing
- October 8, 2013
As the concern for antibiotic-resistant infections grows, hospitals are encouraging patients to make sure doctors have washed their hands before examining them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that infections from hospitals and other medical care facilities impact more than 1 million people each year, taking the lives of nearly 100,000 patients.
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Parents of Queens boy who died from undiagnosed infection urges Senate panel: ‘No more Rorys’
- Health & Healing
- September 26, 2013
Rory Staunton was 12 years old when he died from an undiagnosed case of sepsis, after having scraped his elbow in gym class. Rory had gone to the hospital after waking up on the day after the gym class incident with a high fever, leg pain, high blood pressure, high heart rate, and vomiting, but doctors had assumed the boy just had a stomach flu.
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Healthy diet may reverse aging, study finds
- Health & Healing
- September 22, 2013
Making simple lifestyle changes such as staying active, eating a healthy diet, and working to reduce stress can reduce aging at the cellular level, according to a new study published in Lancet Oncology. While the study focused on men with prostate cancer, researchers say the findings apply more broadly. Dr. Dean Ornish, advocate of the
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Helping Others Helps You Live Longer
- Health & Healing
- September 2, 2013
Volunteering allows you to do good for other people, but it turns out it’s good for you as well. Participating in activities like feeding the hungry can reduce the risk of early death by 22%, a review published in BMC Public Health has found. The review covered 40 different studies, and it found that volunteering
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We’ll soon be able to bring dead back to life, says heart specialist: He claims he could have saved Sopranos star James Gandolfini
- Health & Healing
- August 18, 2013
Dr. Sam Parnia, author of a book on resuscitation science titled Erasing Death, says his research shows that death can actually be reversed in some cases. Dr. Parnia, who is also head of intensive care at the Stony Brook University Hospital in New York, says, “In the past decade we have seen tremendous progress. With today’s
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‘Fat shaming’ actually increases risk of becoming or staying obese, new study says
- Health & Healing
- August 11, 2013
A new study has found that trying to make obese people feel badly about their weight doesn’t actually motivate these people to lose weight, since many simply interpret these kinds of comments as discrimination. “Weight discrimination, in addition to being hurtful and demeaning, has real consequences for the individual’s physical health,” explains Angelina Sutin, lead
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Tips On How To Remember Dreams For Better Health
- Health & Healing
- August 11, 2013
Do you ever wake up wishing you could remember what you were dreaming about? You don’t remember 99% of your dreams, but many times they address aspects of your physical and mental well-being. Kelly Sullivan Walden, author of It’s All in Your Dreams, believes that you can actually control your dreams and allow them to
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Nightmares After the I.C.U.
- Health & Healing
- August 6, 2013
After a stay in the intensive care unit (I.C.U.) because of abdominal infections, Lygia Dunsworth began having hallucinations and even showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which still haunt her years later. Research shows that patients who have longer stays in the I.C.U. can experience these kinds of symptoms for up to two years
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Sick before their time– more kids diagnosed with adult diseases
- Health & Healing
- August 4, 2013
Why are more children today diagnosed with adult diseases? A new report from Harvard Medical School found that kids are increasingly suffering from chronic diseases that traditionally impact adults, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, elevated blood pressure, sleep apnea and more. Researchers say obesity may be to blame for the increase. As Dr. Pamela Singer,
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Addiction: The disease that lies
- Health & Healing
- July 22, 2013
If you knew something would harm you, would you still do it? Those who suffer from addiction may not have a choice. The disease impacts the part of your brain that rewards or reinforces your actions, or the reward center, which ultimately prioritizes the addiction as most important for survival. Dr. Marvin D. Seppala, the
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Dr. Oz Helps Make Apple Juice Safer
- Health & Healing
- July 17, 2013
Back in 2011, Dr. Mehmet Oz found himself in the center of a controversy. After the staff of his TV show had an independent laboratory test five different brands of apple juice, Oz sounded the alarm on the high levels of arsenic. Several samples had considerably more than the ten parts per billion that the
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