Almost everyone has experienced a bout of hoarseness after singing along at a concert or cheering on a favorite sports team. It’s also not uncommon...
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Long COVID: How to Get Your Life Back
One of the newest studies on the long-term risks of COVID-19, published in Nature Communications in October 2022, says it all: Of the tens of...
Do Colonoscopies Make A Difference?
To screen or not to screen for colon cancer…. Most doctors advise their patients to begin colonoscopies starting at age 45. A recent study investigated...
Vegetarian Diets Increase Hip Fracture Risk in Women
Both vegetarian diets and hip fractures are becoming more common with women. In the U.S., about five percent of the population practices meat-free eating. Unfortunately,...
Mind-Body Practices Can Help Beat Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that limits the way your body regulates and uses sugar for energy, resulting in sugar levels in the...
What Causes Cognitive Problems in Breast Cancer Survivors?
If you’re a breast cancer survivor, your memory might not be as sharp as it used to be. Cognitive problems (not just memory loss, but...
Best Diabetes Drugs to Supplement Metformin
Up to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which includes approximately 37 million Americans. Once diagnosed, these individuals have to keep...
How to Find Cancer in Dense Breasts
About four out of 10 women have dense breasts. Density has nothing to do with size—it just means that dense breasts have more connective tissue...
Beat Autoimmune Disease with This Short-Term Diet
We all know that good food is medicine and that cleaning up our diets is often a key component of improving health. But it’s not...
Diverticular Disease
If you are over 60, there’s a good chance you have pouches in the walls of your intestines (called diverticula). These pouches develop where the...
Hidden Celiac Disease
A decade ago, the word gluten—a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye—was unfamiliar to most people. Today, 25 percent or more of the U.S....
New Treatments for Cataracts
Got cataracts? You’re in good company. Half of all 75-year-olds have developed this vision-obscuring clouding of the lens in one or both eyes…and by age...
