Not exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease, study reveals
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 22, 2018
“Cardiorespiratory fitness is a modifiable indicator of long term mortality and healthcare professionals should encourage patients to achieve and maintain high levels of fitness.”
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Every Older Patient Has a Story. Medical Students Need to Hear It.
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 18, 2018
“Unfortunately, most education takes place within the hospital. If you’re only seeing the hospitalized elderly, you’re seeing the debilitated, the physically deteriorating, the demented. It’s easy to pick up ageist stereotypes.”
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For Halloween, There’s Nothing Scarier Than a Fickle Toddler
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 17, 2018
“I’m Batman.” One week later. “No, Spiderman.”
For parents, yearly challenge is buying right Halloween Costume.
Hilary Swank’s perspective on life, love changed after caring for ailing father
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 16, 2018
“It’s almost a great way to weed out people. ‘Wait, you live with your dad.’ The reaction to that helps you move through things faster.”
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The Uphill Fight Against Fake Prescription Drugs
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 10, 2018
“Millennials and those younger rely heavily on social media. Criminal organizations recognize that trend and we’re starting to see advertisements and sales of counterfeit or substandard prescription drugs on social media.”
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Women who drink more water get fewer UTIs
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 10, 2018
“If a woman has recurrent UTI, she should consider her daily fluid intake and try to increase it to at least two to three liters a day.”
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Here’s how much fast food Americans are eating
- Headlines & Highlights
- October 3, 2018
“It is funny, when we see news clips of a shark swimming near a beach, it scares us into not going near that beach. However, what we should be scared of is double cheeseburgers, French fries and large amounts of sugary beverages.”
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What states aren’t doing to save new mothers’ lives
- Headlines & Highlights
- September 21, 2018
“Death rates among pregnant women and new mothers have gotten worse, even as wealthy countries elsewhere improved. Today, the U.S. is the most dangerous place in the developed world to deliver a baby.”
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The opioid crisis hits home. Mine.
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- September 11, 2018
“No family is immune from the scourge of the opioid crisis. About 2 million people in America, from all walks of life, are addicted to opioids. The epidemic is evolving but not improving.”
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9/11 hero’s daughter wants to raise awareness for linked cancer deaths
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- September 10, 2018
“We thought we were so lucky because nobody died. Now we have to wait until they’re picked off by cancer.”
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More than 200,000 teens had plastic surgery last year, and social media had a lot to do with it
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 31, 2018
“As the saying goes, ‘Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should,’ — this reflects the current dilemma presented to plastic surgeons. The demand for plastic surgery in adolescents has increased dramatically, despite the controversy over performing plastic surgery procedures in this population.”
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An 80-Year Harvard Study Says This 1 Thing Will Make You Happier and Healthier
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 27, 2018
What does it take to be healthy & happy? Harvard University began a comprehensive study on emotional well-being back in 1938 that included John F. Kennedy, who went on to become President of the United States, and 723 other men.
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Nearly 10K people have gotten cancer from toxic 9/11 dust
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 23, 2018
“9/11 is still killing. Sadly this fragile community of heroes & survivors is shrinking by the day.” John Feal, advocate for World Trade Center (WTC) responders.
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Weed-killing chemical linked to cancer found in some children’s breakfast foods
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 15, 2018
“I was shocked. We don’t know a lot about the effect of glyphosate on children. And essentially we’re just throwing it at them.”
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Surgery centers don’t have to report deaths in 17 states
- Headlines & Highlights
- August 14, 2018
“A Kaiser Health News & USA Today investigation found that surgery centers operate under such an uneven mix of rules across U.S. states that fatalities & serious injuries can result in no warning to gov’t officials, much less to potential patients.”
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