Category: Health

Taking care of your heart starts with diet and adopting healthy changes. Reducing sugar – which experts say most Americans consume in excess daily – is the perfect place to start.

This year’s spring allergy season may be the worst yet, or at least that’s what you may have heard. Every year is described as the worst for allergy sufferers, but are spring allergies really on the rise? “Several factors, such as weather patterns, predict how intense the spring allergy season will be,” said allergist Michael…

February 14 was National Donor Day, an annual reminder that organ donation saves lives. More than 118,000 people in the United States are waiting for organs, and every 10 minutes, someone is added to the national transplant waiting list, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Ordinary people can make a big difference by…

Many young people engage in risky sexual behaviors that can lead to unintended health consequences. For example, among surveyed high school students in the U.S.: 41% have had sexual intercourse; 30% had sexual intercourse in the last 3 months, and of these; 43% did not use a condom the last time they had sex; 14%…

Thousands of cheerleaders who participated in a national competition last month recently received some disheartening news: They may have been exposed to mumps.Officials from the Texas Department of State Health Services sent letters to individuals who attended the competition — called the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) All-Star National Championship — warning them that a contagious…

With the legalization of marijuana on the rise, an increasing number of studies are exploring the potential harms and benefits of the drug. Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder conducted a review of existing imaging data that examined the effects of alcohol and marijuana, or cannabis, on the brain. Study leader Rachel Thayer, from…

The first release of surveillance data from the World Health Organization on antibiotic resistance reveals high levels of resistance to various severe bacterial infections in both high- and low-income countries.The new Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) from WHO reveals widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance among 500,000 people suspected of bacterial infections in 22 countries. The…

For the first time in modern history, the world has the opportunity “to change the very course of the HIV pandemic, effectively controlling it without a vaccine or cure,” according to the latest U.S. report on HIV/AIDS relief. Five African countries — Malawi, Eswatini, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — are now close to controlling the…

A busy lifestyle and cooler weather can take a toll on the body, especially for those who suffer from chronic aches and pains. Whether the cause of your pain is due to injury, stress, or poor sleep, there are many ways to feel better while avoiding future pain. To stay well this season and naturally…

Cases of dengue, chikungunya, and zika are declining in Brazil. Data from the latest epidemiological bulletin released by the Ministry of Health reveal that notifications of the main diseases caused by the mosquito Aedes aegypti have dropped considerably between January and November of this year compared to the same period in 2016. Among the three,…