Monthly Archive: May 2011

Herbal Supplements

Herbal Supplements

Cordyceps Cordyceps is a mushroom that has long been used, particularly in traditional Chinese medicine, for ailments ranging from asthma to coughs to female hormonal problems. Its use has since extended to include treating...

GERD Linked to More Esophageal Cancers

GERD Linked to More Esophageal Cancers

New research suggests more cases of esophageal cancer may be attributed to gastroesophageal reflux disease than doctors previously thought. Investigators who studied the link between GERD and different types of esophageal cancers found a...

Stopping Heartburn

Stopping Heartburn

It starts as a burning sensation in the chest, before slowly making its way up toward the neck and throat. At one time or another, nearly everyone experiences heartburn. Occasional heartburn is normal. However,...

Heartburn Surgery

Heartburn Surgery

More than 44-percent of all adults in the U.S. experience heartburn at least once a month. For most people, an over the counter drug will help, but for others the pain persists. Modern technology...

Pre-Walk Basics

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...

Are Weekend Migraines a Myth?

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

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

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?

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Herb not Effective for Depression

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

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

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...