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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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Family History
ACUPUNCTURE AND FIBROMYALGIA
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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Flu Studies
There are two new studies which raise significant concern regarding the flu.
One says that the flu shot is really not that effective in the older population which is the prime target population for vaccination.
The other says the drugs we have stockpiled in the event of a flu epidemic won’t work now in many because the flu viruses have become resistant to them.
According to the latest data, presented in the medical journal The Lancet, worldwide resistance to the medicines used to treat the flu have increased a whopping 12 percent in the past 10 years.
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DENTAL DECAY
Megan Moynihan never suspected that her regularly scheduled visit to the dentist would have her facing the drill. “I came in for a check-up and a cleaning and they took X-rays. It turned out that I had 7 cavities,” says Megan.
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