Month: July 2018

A Typical Communication Pattern of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

As people live longer, we’re seeing an increase in how many deal with cognitive problems such as dementia. It can be an embarrassing problem, when your mind starts to fail you, and you’re aware it’s beginning to happen. For this reason, many patients in the earliest stages of dementia will often hide their symptoms of […]

Learning to Relax

Relaxation is a vital part of life. Without being able to relax, you can have some seriously negative impacts on your mood and sleep. By continuously being aroused by negative or intrusive thoughts, you could wind up being tense and anxious all day. On top of that, these thoughts can prevent you from getting a […]

Many People With Mild Brain Injuries Don’t Get Follow-up Care

Head injuries can be serious, but only about half of all patients who present to Emergency Rooms in the United States with head injuries will seek followup care once they leave the ER. The issue with injuries to the head isn’t usually the skull or even neck, it’s the brain. Cranial trauma can subject the […]

Blood Test May Predict Who Is Most At Risk For Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease that affects millions, and can even be fatal if left untreated. Properly diagnosing it is critical to not just allow doctors and patients to begin treatment, but also to do so early enough to avoid patients suffering irreversible damage to their health. Standard testing for diabetes involves taking blood and examining […]

My Mammogram Missed My Breast Cancer

Breast cancer can strike even young women. And unlike some other kinds of cancers, breast cancer can strike right to the heart of a woman’s feminine view of herself. Worse, the medically accepted methods of both diagnosing and treating it are not always one hundred percent accurate. Even mammograms, considered the go-to method of conclusively […]

How to Use CBD to Quit Smoking

Using CBD oil may be the next big way to break smoking habits. Two studies over the past few years have been shown that CBD oil can have a very positive effect on smoking habits and nicotine addiction. The first study, done in 2013, had a group of participants use a CBD inhaler – half […]

pregnant couple

How Nattokinase Supports Reproductive Wellness

When you’re hoping to get pregnant, you’ll often consider anything that might lead to that bouncing baby in your future. And contrary to the warnings you might have heard in health class, sometimes fertility and conception isn’t as simple and easy as it should be. There are a lot of processes in the human body […]

Truck Drivers, Obstructive Sleep Apnea & DOT Screening

Without trucks, driven by truck drivers, the goods we depend on in our daily lives cannot get from producers to the stores where we get them. But a lot of truck drivers are working longer and longer hours, and despite federal regulations governing rest, many drivers are hitting the road while impaired by a lack […]

Important Reasons Why You Need Relationship Goals

If you want to have a happy, satisfying relationship, make goals a part of your life. Not just personal goals, but relationship goals as well.

Blond woman giving up smoking

Smoking Down, but Tobacco Use Still a Major Cause of Death, Disease – WHO

While the overall number of people smoking has declined, especially for women, most countries will still not meet their target in reducing tobacco use by 2025. This remains a serious problem as nearly seven million people die every year from tobacco use, including almost 900,000 deaths due to second hand smoke. While the WHO ratified […]