Getting family members involved after a person with bipolar disorder has an acute episode can reduce the chances of a relapse, report researchers in this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry. Most people with bipolar...
Children with rheumatoid arthritis are more likely than their healthy peers to suffer from sleep-related problems that can interfere with daily activities. Doctors know adults with rheumatoid arthritis are more likely to suffer from...
Are you up all night tossing and turning? If so, it may be more serious than restlessness. A new study shows half of people who complain of sleeping problems may have insomnia. “We usually...
Sleep researchers say as many as 50 percent of American adults report chronic sleep problems. New research looks at prescription sleeping pills, and the findings may surprise you. Another night, another battle with “The...
Narcolepsy is a disorder of excessive daytime sleepiness. There are a lot of other causes of daytime sleepiness, but this particular disorder involves problems with both dreaming and non-dreaming sleep. No matter how much...
00Memory loss – the failure to retrieve stored mental information – can be caused by a variety of factors. Mental and physical stress, lack of sleep, hormonal imbalance, recreational drug use, and alcoholism, as...
Cholesterol may not be the bad guy everyone thinks it is. Another substance in our blood seems to cause more harm to our arteries. When real estate agent Liz Scotney suffered a mild stroke...
Too much iron and manganese in the diet may put people at increased risk for Parkinson’s disease, find researchers publishing in the June 2003 issue of Neurology. Investigators from the University of Washington in...
We’re all at risk now by virtue of the fact that we are part of an aging population. It’s clear that the biggest risk for Alzheimer’s disease is aging. That’s why we know so...
Shunning medication in favor of hypnosis? Some patients at University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Medical Center are doing just that. James Blash has an injury that cut straight to the bone. Now after surgery...
Labyrinths are maze-like designs that date back to ancient times. They were thought to be used for religious, as well as healing purposes. Today, as Western medicine is combining with complementary therapies to help...
Gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, was available in health food stores until 1990. Weight lifters used it to bulk up, but the FDA pulled it from shelves when it began to be used for...
While researchers may not understand how estrogen replacement therapy benefits cognitive function, a recent study offers some insight. The benefit, report researchers, may lie in the brain concentration of choline, a vitamin known to...
Eating a healthy diet may help protect against dementia as people age, according to a new study. Researchers from the National Research Council in Milan, Italy studied more than 1,600 men and women over...
A new study shows high fruit consumption may increase a person’s risk of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers in Honolulu tested more than 8,000 subjects and recorded the number of diagnosed Parkinson’s cases for a 34-year...
We all want sleep, but many of us have trouble getting enough of it! Last year alone, 42 million sleeping pill prescriptions were filled, which means Americans spent more than $3 billion trying to...
Researchers have made a major discovery that could slow — and even stop — the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers from Northwestern University found isradipine (DynaCirc), a drug widely used to treat cardiac hypertension...
Can’t remember where you put your keys? How about the name of the person you met last night at a dinner party? Researchers say memory starts fading around age 30, but there are ways...
Our bodies naturally generate stress hormones on a daily basis, we need them to survive. During periods of stress, the levels of these hormones can go up and that’s generally a good thing. It...