1 Energy Drink = 11 Croissants, And 9 Other Shockers
Stark images and bold messaging will now graphically illustrate -- on every ad and every pack of cigarettes -- the painful and deadly reality of tobacco use. A diseased lung. A baby surrounded by secondhand smoke. A man who needs an oxygen mask to breathe.
What can make the difference, as well as lower hospital readmission rates and costs, is to have adequate home care lined up before leaving the hospital in the first place.
Now you can take back control of your life, using the power of your own mind with self-hypnosis. You can rest assured that you have the ability to use self-hypnosis to defeat anxiety.
An alarming new study found that almost one-third of emergency departments have closed in the last two decades. This is particularly troubling when you consider that ER visits are on the rise.
All parents have one thing in common: they're getting older. So how do you spent time together and still enjoy it? The secret is you.
The job of biomedical research is far from over. Given the changing nature of the global health landscape, we must act now to broaden our vision even further.
I don't think parents should minimize the importance of an eating disorder, but we all need a respite. We need to remind ourselves that even in a dark moment, we can find a glimmer of peace.
Some day, ideally, we will convert the world we live in to a place where eating well and being active are the norm for us all.
As the world celebrates the latest scientific findings in the fight against AIDS/HIV, we are reminded that the public-private partnership involves being able to both "do good" and also "do well".
Would it come as a jolt to have to see your doctor as a businessperson as well as a healer each time you visited? Is it somehow unnerving to be exposed to the true costs of health care, without the buffer of an insurance company between you and the doctor?
Kindness, to be lasting, has to begin or extend with ourselves
I started thinking about the beat of "Stayin' Alive" and realized it had about 100 beats per minute -- the same rate the American Heart Association recommends for CPR chest compressions.
The Casey Anthony trial and the Anthony Weiner affair have us feeding off the news and pointing fingers. Why? Because it is our own secret nightmare on display for everyone to see.
I told her something many Americans need to learn: there's nothing wrong with eating later in the evening, as long as it's not the only meal of the day.
A spa, even if only as a metaphor, is a destination that we need to visit, study and copy, because it allows the very respite from the madness of most of our lives that affords us the necessary breathing, reflection and contrast.
It is a national tragedy for a gunman to shoot a US congresswoman in the brain, but it is a national disgrace that most civilians and military personnel with brain injury never receive the therapy necessary to recover any semblance of their former lives.
A miracle is an event so unlikely as to be almost impossible. By that definition, I've just proven that you are a miracle.
Keeping up with the world of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and that pack of people whose profile pictures seem to follow me everywhere I go online was keeping me from engaging with some of the people I'd known for decades.
Do you like the updated, radically different shape of the food pyramid? If you do, you aren't alone.
Patricia Rust, 2011.06.21
Dr. Daniel Seidman, 2011.06.21
Art Markman, Ph.D., 2011.06.21
