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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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ACUPUNCTURE AND FIBROMYALGIA
Sinuplasty
Sinusitis sufferer, Norman Wiesenfeld, says that living with chronic sinus pain stole every ounce of his energy. “I was trying to go to sleep and had coughing attacks every night and I couldn’t sleep.”
Having no success with a multitude of different over-the-counter medications and other prescription drugs, Norman opted for sinuplasty, a revolutionary treatment for sinusitis.
“It is different than traditional endoscopic sinus surgery that we have been using for the past fifteen or twenty years, this is non invasive and we use it as a catheter similar to the catheter that we use for patients to open up clogged arteries in their heart, we are going to use it to open up clogged sinuses, so we open up those passageways with a balloon that we inflate under anesthesia,” explains Dr. B. Todd Schaeffer of North Shore University Hospital.
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SINUSITIS AND ANTIBIOTICS
SINUS HEADACHE MISDIAGNOSIS
BETTER TONSILLECTOMY
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
INSOMNIA - WRONG SLEEPING PILLS
If you spend sleepless nights tossing and turning, and have ever considered or used a sleeping pill, there’s important new research that may cause you to rethink how you and your doctor address your insomnia problem.
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TV AND SLEEP PROBLEMS
Ambien Follow Up
Sinuplasty
INSOMNIA TREATMENT
There’s new research which sheds light on the best way to treat insomnia, and it doesn’t involve medications. This study shows that an approach to insomnia called cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is more effective than sleeping pills in treating chronic insomnia.
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