Blood Donation May Reduce Heart Attack Risk
Donating blood is a selfless act that helps 5 million people each year. In fact, in just about an hour, a pint of your blood can make a difference in as many as 3...
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What do all those test at your regular check-up really mean?
Every year or so, you make an appointment to be poked and prodded, stuck with needles, and handed a cup much smaller than your usual target in which to pee. Somewhere between dressing up...
About Conn’s disease
Conn’s disease, also known as Primary Aldosteronism (PA), is an illness of the adrenal glands. It occurs when one or both glands produce too much of the hormone aldosterone, which causes patients to retain...
Foot Infections Nail Fungus
The technical name for the fungus that people get on their feet is called onychomycosis, and essentially, it’s everywhere. People can grab fungal infections from the floor, from the carpet, their house – it’s...
Beating Bipolar Disorder
It’s estimated that 2.5 million people in the United States suffer from bipolar disorder. It’s a mood disorder in which people have periods of depression that alternate with periods of mood elevations. Doctors often...
Do You Have Celiac Disease?
Migraines, diarrhea, chronic fatigue and weight loss — all symptoms caused by a disease most people have never heard of — celiac disease. Doctors say more than 1 million Americans have it, and many...
Stop Your Splitting Headache
Millions of Americans suffer excruciating headache pain on a daily basis and taking another aspirin isn’t doing the trick. One doctor explains the pain should not be ignored because headaches can be the body’s...
Lead Busters
It’s referred to as the number one pediatric problem that is completely preventable. It causes hyperactivity, learning disabilities and even brain damage. The problem is lead poisoning, and in some inner cities up to...
Energy After Chemotherapy
What are some of the side effects from chemotherapy? Dr. Block: There are a lot of side effects, and they’re really drug-related. Some drugs are associated with a group of side effects. Others have...
Discover your body’s internal clock
In a major step forward, University of North Carolina researchers have discovered what controls our body’s internal clock. The discovery gives researchers new ideas for the treatments of many disorders, including seasonal affective disorder....
Spit for Good Health
Someday, doctors may skip jabbing you with a needle for blood tests and just ask you to spit. Doctors at UCLA’s School of Dentistry are looking into ways to diagnose disease using saliva. The...
Tooth truths You Need to Know
You’ve been told your whole life to brush your teeth twice a day, every day. But it takes more than that to have a clean mouth. There are some surprising tooth truths you might...
Genetic engineering and biotechnology
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — The discovery of DNA in 1947 by James Watson and Francis Crick sparked a worldwide scientific revolution. In just 43 years there has been an explosion of knowledge and expertise in...
Sex Infections Common in U.S.
The United States leads other developed nations in death and disability caused by sexually transmitted diseases, shows a new study. That dismal finding is based on research from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Athletes Eat High-Energy Foods
Athletes are always trying to boost their energy to get a competitive edge in sports. Some say high-energy eating is the key. Even if you’re moderately active, the right food might rev-up your workout....
Energy After Chemotherapy Treatment
Fatigue is the most common side effect of chemotherapy. Ninety-five percent of cancer patients say it zaps their energy. If researchers are right, popping a few pills each day may bring the energy back....
Laughing boosts energy
Are you stressed? Do you have trouble sleeping? Or do you just want to relax? You’ve tried medicines or maybe massages. You might just want to laugh. These people are exercising, lowering their blood...
Major breakthrough in paralysis treatment
Researchers say they have uncovered a major breakthrough in the quest to cure paralysis. A new study shows rats with spinal cord injuries can achieve 70 percent normal function. Investigators from The Miami Project...
Doctors are doing the unthinkable — making paralyzed patients walk again!
In a study on laboratory mice, researchers discovered the central nervous system, responsible for communicating messages between the brain and body, can reorganize itself and follow new pathways to restore movement. In subjects with...
Electronic Records Keep Patients Safe
Automating patient medical records has been touted as a way to ensure health care providers have all the information they need to make care decisions. That concept was tested recently at the Cleveland Clinic...
Have you been to a juice bar lately?
“Immune Builder,” “Pineapple Passion” and “Zeus Juice” are just some flavors to choose from. What’s in a name? Just how nutritious are these smoothies? Juice bars are sprouting up all over the place. They’re...
New Cause of Wasting Syndrome
About half of all patients with cancer and AIDS are affected by wasting syndrome. It is a condition that causes severe weight loss and weakness in patients. Department of Veterans Affairs researchers in San...
Connection between lung and bone problems
There’s a new connection between lung problems and bone problems. A new study urges the importance of screening for osteoporosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). The association between the two is...
Fruits and Veggies Lower Blood Pressure
Doctors may soon be writing patients prescriptions for five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, if British researchers have their way. In the first long-term study of its kind, researchers found people who...
Women are looking for ways to turn back time
On average, we can expect to enjoy longer lives than our parents, grandparents and their grandparents. As the baby boomer generation approaches middle age and beyond, a growing number of women are looking for...
Drug treatment after blood clots
How long should patients take anti-clotting drugs after an episode of venous thromboembolism? That’s the question researchers set out to answer in a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. They reviewed...
Antioxidant Supplements may cut the macular degeneration risk
Eating right can cut down on your risk of a leading cause of blindness, reveals a new study from Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. There, researchers tracked the dietary habits of over...
Indoor Smoking Bans – Creating Unhealthy Outdoors?
More and more public places are banning indoor smoking, but what effect is this having on the air just outside the doors ofrestaurants and bars — where smokers congregate? Researchers from the University of...
Sleep Apnea and the Risks to Your Health
Sleep Apnea Nearly Doubles Risk for Heart Attack, Death Obstructive sleep apnea — a nighttime sleep disorder where the upper airway narrows or collapses and affects 8 million Americans — triggers the body’s “fight...
What is intravenous immunoglobulin, or IVIG?
It is a blood product that contains immune factors that will counteract some of the autoimmune attack that the body puts on its own parts. So it’s actually pooled blood products that get concentrated...