Category: Elderly
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4 Ways to Overcome Insomnia Anxiety — and Get Back to Sleep
Clinical psychologist Steve Orma was a little over 40 years old when he developed insomnia — difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. He couldn’t stop thinking about it. “I started to enter the mental state that most people find themselves in. I worried: ‘What’s happening? Is something wrong with me?’”, he says. This fear of…
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4 Ways to Overcome Insomnia Anxiety — and Get Back to Sleep
Clinical psychologist Steve Orma was in his early 40s when he developed insomnia — difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. He couldn’t stop obsessing over it. “I started to enter the mental state that most people get sucked into. I worried: ‘What’s happening? Is something wrong with me?’”, he says. This fear of not being…
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Watch Out for Christmas Heart Attacks. How to Identify Signs of Heart Problems During the Holidays
The risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke increases during the holiday season, with a peak in deaths from heart problems between Christmas and New Year’s. “We certainly see this in the emergency room during the end-of-year holidays,” says Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, cardiologist who leads the Framingham Heart Study at Boston University School of…
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Beware of the Christmas Coronary. How to Identify Signs of Heart Problems During the Holidays
The risk of heart attack or stroke increases during the holiday season, with a peak in cardiac deaths between Christmas and New Year’s. Learn to spot the signs and reduce your risk.
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Internet Access Grows Across Social Classes, But Remains Unequal
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Brazilians now access the internet in a large majority, but the quality and type of content they seek may show considerable differences related to family income. According to the TIC Domicílios survey, released this Tuesday (9), 86% of households have internet access, the highest figure in the historical series, which began in 2015 when 51%…
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OUTBOX – New York Solo Performance Festival
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BEA – Biblioteca Brasileira de Nova York presents: OUTBOX – New York Solo Performance Festival is a platform that brings a theater concept to small spaces like that of the Biblioteca Brasileira de Nova York, and this special edition is dedicated to the expressive power of contemporary individual performance, bringing together five artists with distinct…
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Immigrants with Obesity, Diabetes, and Other Health Problems May Have Visas Denied
Foreigners seeking visas to live in the US may be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, according to a guideline issued last week by the Trump administration. The guidance, issued in a cable sent by the State Department to embassy and consulate officials and reviewed by KFF Health News, instructs…
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Immigrants with Obesity, Diabetes, and Other Health Problems May Have Visas Denied
Foreigners seeking visas to live in the US may have their applications rejected if they present certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, according to a guideline issued last week by the Trump administration. The guidance, disclosed in a memo sent by the State Department to embassy and consulate staff and analyzed by KFF Health…
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Study says coffee reduces risk of cardiac arrhythmia recurrence
A novel study from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in the United States, and the University of Adelaide, in Australia, suggests that drinking a cup of coffee daily can reduce by 39% the risk of recurrence of cardiac arrhythmia, which are irregular and rapid heartbeats. UCSF electrophysiologist Gregory Marcus says that “caffeine is…
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For the first time, consensual unions surpass civil and religious marriages
For the first time, the proportion of Brazilians living in consensual conjugal unions surpasses the proportion of religious and civil marriages. In 2022, 38.9% of conjugal unions were consensual, meaning the spouses did not marry. There are 35.1 million people in situations such as stable unions, for example. This proportion was 28.6% in 2000 and…