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- • Eating Smart -- Hot and Cold Myths
- Summer is officially over. The kids are back in school. The Halloween/Thanksgiving food orgy is about to begin.
- • Crohn's Disease, Intestinal Inflammation
- Crohn's disease is a debilitating disease that affects between 400,000 to 750,000 Americans -- and it's on the rise.
- • Separating Nutrition Fact From Fiction
- Weight loss is a perennial pursuit in the United States, yet obesity is at its highest level ever.
- • Bodylessons -- Exercise Speeds Recovery
- When faced with a health crisis or injury, exercise is often the last thing on a patient's mind.
- • See How They Run -- And Where
- It's almost as if the editors of 'On the Roads' try to outdo themselves in their annual look at running trends.
- • How My Mother-In-Law Saved Halloween
- I've hated Halloween for as long as I can remember -- ever since my friend Rebecca decided we should dress up as two parts of a horse...
- • The Basics of Cold and Flu Prevention
- You can take steps, none involves changing jobs, to protect yourself and your family this flu-and-cold season.
- • The Tricky World of Antidepressants
- Three years ago Cincinnati Reds pitcher Pete Harnisch began losing interest in food, sleeping fitfully and withdrawing from friends and teammates.
- • Eating Smart -- Getting Nutrition From Plants
- The shift of interest to a plant-based diet in the United States happened quietly and without much fanfare in response to all the talk about lowering the fat content in our diets...
- • Obesity in Children is Ballooning
- With obesity threatening the long-term health of 6 million American children and another 5 million children tottering on the edge,...
- • Conquering Chemo by Dealing with Side Effects
- Chances are, you know someone who's fighting cancer. Or maybe you yourself are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment right now.
- • Aches, Pains, Coughs -- It's That Time Of Year Again
- Really, novelist Anne Lamott loves her kid. But here's what she says about the little light of her life in a recent essay
- • Eating Smart -- Turning Up The Heat
- A recent issue of the FDA Consumer points out that many people think that they can tell when a food is done just by looking at it.
- • Join The Great American Smokeout
- For more than two decades, this day has motivated smokers across the nation to quit for 24 hours in the hopes that it would lead to permanent cessation.
- • Fruits, Veggies Build Body's Defenses
- Unless you've been locked up in a steak house for the last decade, you've been bombarded with the message that eating more fruits and vegetables will help you lose weight.
- • Should Puberty Be Suppressed?
- Increasingly, parents are asking doctors to put the brakes on puberty. That's because girls are developing sexually at younger ages and treatment is available to suppress it.
- • 'Shipshape' = Serious Exercise Options On Board
- When Michele Smith, a fitness enthusiast who works for Royal Caribbean International, boarded her employer's Voyager of the Seas for a recent cruise,
- • Understanding Dietary Cholesterol
- Despite much media attention, the role of dietary cholesterol and its influence on your heart continues to be misunderstood.
- • Boning Up on Calcium
- According to a press release we received recently from Kraft Foods, 90 percent of American women do not get the calcium they need every day to keep their bones strong...
- • What Exactly is Breast Cancer?
- Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that develops from breast cells.
- • Eating Smart -- Food In The Mail
- Remember the 'good' old days of holiday shopping? You bundled up the kids, loaded everybody into the car, drove to the mall...
- • Massage In Prisons, Homeless Shelters
- Another alternative therapy that has come into vogue at prisons, homeless shelters and other institutions is therapeutic massage.
- • Pregnancy Rates Soaring in Older Women
- Sociomedical trends are giving new meaning to the phrase 'dear old mom'.
- • Bodylessons -- Lifting Your Holiday Load
- With all the extra holiday shopping, social gatherings and general hubbub of the season, the last thing anyone needs is to suffer a back injury.
- • Types of Home Care Agencies
- Home care services are provided by numerous organizations including home health agencies; hospices; homemaker and home care aide agencies...
- • Nonadherence in Clinical Trials
- It's not surprising that patients don't always take their medications exactly as prescribed.
- • Get a Jump on Holiday Food Obsessions
- We are a food-obsessed nation, and every holiday from Halloween through New Year's Day is another chorus in America's anthem to it.
- • Healthy Teeth -- Year by Year
- These tips from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and the American Dental Association (ADA) will help you get your child's teeth off to a great start:
- • How to Raise Cavity-Free Kids
- If 'Charlie's Angels' was a hit show when you were a kid, you probably grew up at a time when getting a few cavities now and then was just part of childhood.
- • Formula for a Winning Marathon
- As marathon popularity continues to increase, competition among race directors can be as fierce as the footrace at the front of the pack.
- • Teens Have Special Sleep Needs
- Sleep deprivation has been linked to memory deficits, impaired performance and alertness, delayed responses, increased irritability, anxiety, depression and reduced concentration.
- • Alternative Medicines For Colds And Flu
- Four prescription antiviral drugs are approved for treating the flu.
- • A Series of Setbacks for GM Food
- The genetically modified (GM) debate intensified in May 1999, when the journal Nature published a Cornell University study showing that monarch butterflies...
- • What's Making You Itch?
- Most ailments evoke sympathy; not so with itching. Scratching is more apt to prompt titters than tears from friends and even doctors.
- • Fit Feet
- Taking care of your feet and wearing shoes appropriate to your activity can save your vacation, whether you are sightseeing in Seattle or hiking the Andes.
- • What Home Care Services Are Available?
- Through a home care agency, you can receive many of the same health care and support services available in a hospital.
- • Eating Smart -- Kiwi Capers
- Kiwi used to be an exotic, unassuming visitor to the produce section of your supermarket.
- • Get Started on that Diet Now
- As you move toward the platter of cookies in the coffee room, you know you're not about to fight temptation.
- • Marathon Madness Reaches Super Bowl XXXV
- Jet-ski races and marathons might be the least complementary sports for Chris Lauber to organize.
- • Who Pays For Home Care?
- Home care services can be paid for directly by the patient and family or through several public and private sources.
- • What Should I Ask About Home Care Agencies?
- There are a number of questions you might ask when considering a home care service.
- • What Do I Do About Quality Of Care Complaints?
- If you've selected your home health agency carefully, you'll probably avoid most problems. If a problem or concern should come up...
- • Treatment At Home
- Treatment for cancer sometimes can be given at home as well as in the hospital.
- • When Death Is Approaching
- In caring for a loved one who has advanced cancer you may be present at the time of death. The following is intended to remove some of the mystery that surrounds the end of life by looking at the process of dying.
- • Care Giving and Home Care FAQs
- Home care is a long-held tradition that has caught up with modern technologic advances.
- • The Doctor-Patient Relationship
- An important part of good health care is a good relationship between you and your doctor.
- • Hormone Replacement Therapy Comes Under Fire
- This space is reserved for our affiliated sites Hormone Replacement Therapy -- The "Wonder" Treatment Comes Under Fire Doctors who have established practices ...
- • Dipping into the Fountain of Youth
- Some doctors say science has discovered what Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon never could: the fountain of youth.
- • Urine Therapy
- Urine therapy (also known as urea therapy) is a type of alternative therapy that involves the drinking or rubbing onto the skin of one's own urine.
- • Bane of Female Atheletes, Incontinence, Can be Treated
- More than two-thirds of female gymnasts say it happens frequently. Twenty-eight percent of female college athletes have experienced it at some point when participating in their sport.
- • MEDICINAL PLANTS (overview).
- Programmed cell death (apoptosis), a form of cell death, described by Kerr and Wyllie some 20 years ago...
- • Bioresonance
- The treatment of neurocirculatory asthenia and essential hypertension stage I and II...
- • Bioresonance
- The use of microwave resonance therapy on patients with chronic...
- • Microwave Resonance
- Results are submitted of study into effects of microwave resonance therapy (MRT)...
- • Cancer and Dendritic Cell Therapy
- Dendritic cells (DCs) represent a group of antigen-presenting leukocytes...
- • Cancer and Stem Cell Therapy
- For the past thirty years, hematology has switched from the concept of bone marrow...
- • Cancer and Stem Cell Therapy
- The article provides a review of the role of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor...
- • Hydrazine Sulfate
- In the past 20 years, cachexia in cancer patients has attracted increasing...
- • NUTRITION: THE HOUTSMULLER DIET
- Dr.Houtsmuller, a retired internist, introduced an anticancer diet ten years ago.
- • Urine & Urea Therapy
- I have been fond of urine therapy for many years but, except as a homoeopathic remedy, I have rarely mentioned it to patients as our social conditioning invariably prompted a strong negative reaction.
- • Photodynamic Therapy
- Photodynamic Therapy Photodynamic therapy (also called PDT, photoradiation therapy, phototherapy, or photochemotherapy) is a treatment for some types of cancer. It is based on ...
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