For more than 100 years the United States has looked to prohibition to curtail the use of drugs. Proponents argue …
8 Ways to Optimize Your Sleep
(Family Features) While a healthy lifestyle requires a balanced diet and exercise, sleep is another pillar of overall wellness that …
Home-cooked meals, less TV, linked to lower obesity
(Reuters Health) – Adults who never watch TV during family meals and eat mostly home-cooked food are much less likely …
How’s your poop? Check the chart!
The normalcy of your stools may be determined by comparing them to the Bristol Stool Form scale, or the BSF scale for …
Tired? Want a snack? Add protein powder to these great recipes
Now that it’s getting warmer, we’ll be spending more time outside. Having a little extra energy and power would be …
5 smart steps to preserving brain health
(BPT) – Everyone knows aerobic exercise gets the heart pumping and lifting weights keeps muscles strong. But when it comes …
Miniatures from a 12th-century Medical and Herbal Collection
Here’s a wonderful series of miniatures from a late 12th-century manuscript thought to hail from England or Northern France, once …
You can buy insulin without a prescription, but should you?
If you’re living off the grid you may not have health insurance, you may not have a doctor. You may …
Seniors Get Destroyed by Medical Bills for this Medicare Mistake
COBRA, Retiree Plans, VA Benefits Don’t Alleviate Need To Sign Up For Medicare By Susan Jaffe When Cindy Hunter received …
Take Precautions to Be Safe this Holiday Season
(Family Features) Although good tidings and joy abound during the holiday season, this time of year can also pose a …
Life Hack: DIY mini-storage solution
You never know when you’ll need a small amount of something, like antibiotic cream, or salt, or medicine, or cooking …
Is the era of antibiotic medications over? What does this mean for humanity?
In a report from the BBC, the world is on the verge of a “post-antibiotic era”, scientists have warned after …
Why are elderly Americans being over-treated with statins?
Surge In Statin Use Among Very Elderly Without Heart Trouble Raises Doubts By Lisa Gillespie Many doctors are choosing a better-safe-than-sorry …
Dental Tourism – A viable and cost-saving alternative
Medical tourism is so popular in the United States that an average of 150,000 people travel abroad every year for …
EXPOSED: Giant cover-up of deadly infection in US hospitals. Be very vigilant.
EXPOSED By Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Aboutaleb. (Reuters) RICHMOND, Va. – Josiah Cooper-Pope, born 15 weeks premature, did …
This berry destroyed a cancerous tumor in days.
Watch this amazing result! An experimental cancer treatment based on rainforest berries has been successfully shown to destroy tumours in …
I never heard of these programs, did you? Cardiac rehabilitation programs are great – if you do them.
Cardiac Rehab Improves Health, But Cost And Access Issues Complicate Success CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mario Oikonomides credits a massive heart attack …
How to give yourself a 3-minute foot massage.
Hard day at work? Kids running you ragged? Overdid it on the machine? Got a spouse who’s always demanding a foot …
Allergies: Finding alternatives to antihistamines
You’ve probably seen commercials before for antihistamine allergy medicines like Sudafed and Benadryl. For some people, these products offer relief …
Cupping – It worked for Phelps, would it work for you?
In cupping , through either heat or suction, the skin is gently drawn upwards by creating a vacuum in a …
Syncing Up Drug Refills: A Way To Get Patients To Take Their Medicine?
You have your red pill and your green pill. There’s the one you take at breakfast, the one you take …
Zombie bacteria outbreak from animal that’s been dead for decades
An anthrax outbreak has overtaken the remote Yamalo-Nenets district of western Siberia killing 1,500 reindeer in a week and forcing the hospitalization …
Sometimes Tiny Is Just The Right Size: ‘Microhospitals’ Filling Some ER Needs
Eyeing fast-growing urban and suburban markets where demand for health care services is outstripping supply, some health care systems are …
Internal Affairs – How to check your poop is healthy
Your bowels consist of the small intestine and the large intestine (colon). Your small intestine absorbs foods and liquids. It …
Busting Myths About Mental Illness
When Annie Powell, 35, was in the midst of a 72-hour manic episode in February 2013, she felt like Superwoman: …
Filling A Prescription? You Might Be Better Off Paying Cash
Some consumers who use health insurance copays to buy prescription drugs are paying far more than they should be and …
Colon Cancer Screening: Five Things To Know
It’s a predictable passage in life: Hit 50, get lots birthday cards with old-age jokes, a mailbox full of AARP …
Sucking chest wound? You need the Asherman Chest Seal!
A pneumothorax is the medical word for the condition when air leaks through a defect in the lung, the chest wall or both, …
Single dose cure for malaria coming down the pike
As we discussed last week, the political discontinuation of DDT hit America hard – but nowhere near as hard as the effect …