Heart disease has ranked No. 1 in the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. for years. In 2020, 690,882 people died from heart disease. This is compared to 633,842 who died in 2015, which represents a 9 percent jump in six short years. One of the key risk factors for heart disease…
Do We Need to Rethink Addiction in the US?
Addiction is a serious problem here in the United States, and it has a severe impact on millions of people every year. When we think about addiction, we often make reference to alcohol, drugs, and prescription medication. Fentanyl, a drug many times more potent than heroin, was a crisis waiting to happen. And while we…
Doctor-Turned-Caregiver Shares About Health Care’s Blindspot
December 8, 2021
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Caring for someone with a serious illness stretches people spiritually and emotionally, often beyond what they might have thought possible. Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a professor of psychiatry and anthropology at Harvard University, calls this “enduring the unendurable” in his recently published book, “The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor.”…
When Your Man Has Trouble Sleeping at Night
Is your man having trouble sleeping and waking up often at night? Is he keeping you up because he needs to pee several times a night? You’re not alone. We know that doesn’t help much, but perhaps some of the following tips will. First, however, let’s discuss what’s going on with him. Let’s explore potential reasons? …
Could Mushrooms Be the Key to Improving Immunity?
Mushrooms, long valued for their medicinal properties, are being explored as tools to boost immunity and fight viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Gordon Saxe, director of research at the Centers for Integrative Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of three studies evaluating whether mushrooms are therapeutic for treating COVID-19. During…
Glaxo Says Its COVID-19 Antibody Treatment Effective Against Omicron
December 7, 2021
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British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said early-stage lab data shows its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, jointly developed with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology, is effective against all mutations of the new Omicron strain. Glaxo said in a Dec. 7 statement that new preclinical findings generated from in vitro testing of the drug, called sotrovimab, show that the treatment…
Stress Is a Health Hazard but Friends Can Help
Stress affects up to 90 percent of people, and we know it harms our mental and physical well-being. For example, stress can impact the activity and function of our genes. It does this via “epigenetic” changes, which turn on and off certain genes, though it doesn’t change the DNA code. But why do some people respond…
Breathing Techniques to Help Calm Your Nerves
Some people simply can’t get into meditation and have no desire to learn. If you can’t fully shut your brain down to meditate or you get bored trying to practice mindfulness, you’re not alone. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t calm anxieties or combat your stress by slowing down. There’s a reason why people…
Probiotics and Mental Health
You may wonder how beneficial bacteria could possibly have a positive impact on mental health. If you have heard of the brain-gut axis—the pathway that exists between the brain and the gut—then you might guess there is a definite link between these two areas of the body. This relationship is important to understand so you…
Why You Can’t Find Cheap At-Home COVID-19 Tests
While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had received more than 3,000 emergency use authorization applications, and it didn’t have the resources to get through them. “We want to try to avoid the…
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