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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ACUPUNCTURE AND FIBROMYALGIA
ACUPUNCTURE FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
If you’ve tried all the pain medicines, the heat packs, and you still have aching knees, there’s new evidence that acupuncture might help with your osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of joint disease, and the most common location for osteoarthritis is, in fact, the knee. And with our aging baby boomers, more and more of us are going to have to deal with this problem, which is hardly insignificant.
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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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KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
“I was very sad when I had to stop tennis. Life wasn’t the same,” says Phyllis Hyacinthe. She didn’t want to accept the fact she could no longer play tennis because knee osteoarthritis got the best of her.
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Knee Replacement
Hip Fracture
KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS TOPICAL TREATMENT
52 year old George Laflare has been a sports fanatic since his high school days. A former football player, George says over the years his knees have really taken a beating. Eventually he developed knee osteoarthritis. Now, new topical treatments of knee osteoarthritis are helping George cope with the pain.
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HOMOCYSTEINE AND FRACTURE RISK
Hip Fracture
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS TREATMENT
New research into rheumatoid arthritis shows the problem affects various ethnicities differently, and that plays a role in how the treatment for rheumatoid arthritis has to vary from person to person.
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JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
“She was fine on a Thursday. But when she woke up on a Friday her legs didn’t function the way they did before,” recalls Gina Gorisek.
Suddenly, just 6 months ago, 2 year old Isabella, an active toddler, could no longer stand. She’d cry every time her mother, Gina, tried to help her stand or walk. After a battery of tests, Isabella was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
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ALZHEIMER'S DRUG FAILURE
A new study provides discouraging evidence a drug used for Alzheimer's to stem the progression of the disease may not be effective in the long run. The recently developed drugs called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors held a lot of hope.
And studies have shown they do work at first. But this study shows the drug does not stop the progression of the disease at all, questioning their long-term and overall benefit.
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