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Reducing Stress Lowers Risk of Cardiovascular Problems
A Review in The Lancet reveals the importance of healthy lifestyle choices to reduce stressors related to cardiovascular risk factors. Researchers from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore examined records between 1990 to 2006. They observed how stress affects the sympathetic nervous system, impacts physiology, and the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Lead author, Daniel Brotman, claims "Acute physical stressors such as sugery, trauma, and intense physical exertion are well known triggers of cardiovascular events. Emotional stressors are increasingly recognized as precipitants of such events."
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Rapid Rise in "Complementary" Medical Services
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ACUPUNCTURE AND FIBROMYALGIA
Croup Treatment Failure
Croup is one of the most common and potentially serious viral respiratory infections in kids. It’s typically treated with humidified air to sooth the airways.
But does that treatment really work?
In kids, croup is the most common cause of difficulty breathing due to airway obstruction in kids. In fact, it’s diagnosed in up to five percent, or one in twenty kids under the age of six.
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Family History
How well do you know your family medical history?
We mean, really know –in the sense of knowing what each parent, brother, sister, grandparent, and great-grandparent, aunt, uncle, and cousin has or has had in terms of medical conditions.
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Low Carb Diet For Diabetes
Research Suggests Ways to Slow Alzheimer's
WHOOPING COUGH BOOSTER STUDY
Once thought to be a disease that only afflicted children, whooping cough cases are now increasingly common among adolescents and adults. With two vaccines developed to protect adults against the disease, whooping cough has once more become an important focus of public health. Research just released shows these new vaccines are highly effective and could help reverse the growing number of whooping cough cases.
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