Avoiding the Back Pain Overtreatment Trap Avoiding the Back Pain Overtreatment Trap:- When it comes to the way we experience the aches and pains of life in today’s modern, fast-paced and digitally-connected world, the notion of dealing with any amount of pain for any length of time can seem downright […]
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A Patient’s Guide to Multiple Sclerosis A Patient’s Guide to Multiple Sclerosis:- Researchers know how multiple sclerosis does its dirty work. The process starts with damage to the myelin coating around nerve fibers in the central nervous system, which fouls up nerve signals between the brain, spinal cord and rest […]
Seniors in Puerto Rico Face Appalling Conditions After Hurricane Maria Seniors in Puerto Rico Face Appalling Conditions After Hurricane Maria:- Heida Stearns Rivera, 81, lives in Vieques, an island municipality off Puerto Rico’s eastern coast. Three weeks after Hurricane Maria’s impact and destruction, she is still struggling. Older adults like […]
A Patient’s Guide to Depression A Patient’s Guide to Depression:- It doesn’t take much to get some people in a funk. A squabble with a spouse; a bad review at work. Most often, the sour moods that result are fleeting. Not so with depression. If those feelings persist – usually […]
What Is Axillary Web Syndrome? The American Cancer Society reports that surgery to remove a cancerous tumor is prescribed in 95 percent of early stage breast cancers and more than 70 percent of advanced stage breast cancers. This surgery is performed as a lumpectomy (in which the tumor and a […]
Violence in the Health Care Workplace Violence in the Health Care Workplace:- In a time not that long ago, if a child announced that he or she wanted to be a nurse or doctor, their parents would be overjoyed to tell their friends. They may have even been relieved that […]
Amazon Alexa is missing one big thing before it gets into health care Amazon Alexa is missing one big thing before it gets into health care:- Amazon’s voice technology Alexa has a lot of opportunity to be used in health care, whether it’s for remote monitoring of sick patients or […]
A Patient’s Guide to Diabetes A Patient’s Guide to Diabetes:- Diabetes is one of those sneaky diseases: Symptoms (among them increased thirst and the need to urinate more often) can be mild, develop over time and overlap with other issues such as aging. The result: The American Diabetes Association estimates […]
11 Ways to Get Moving More When You Have Diabetes The positive benefits of increased physical activity when you have diabetes are just too powerful to ignore. First, there’s the blood sugar-lowering benefit. Then there’s the role that physical activity plays in weight loss and weight maintenance. And there are […]
What You Should Know About Stomach Cancer What You Should Know About Stomach Cancer:- Cancer of the stomach, or gastric cancer, is the fifth most common cancer worldwide in women and the fourth most common in men, says Dr. Amit Bhatt, a gastroenterologist at Cleveland Clinic. “Although, in general, the […]
