Category Archives: Health News

The type of job you perform can take a toll on your overall health and mental state – and even increase your risk of suicide. The rates of suicide rose between 2000 and 2012 up 21 percent. Occupations that saw the highest jumps in suicide rates were farmers and foresters – 85 suicides per 100,000 ...click here to read more

The FDA has recently approved eye implants placed in the cornea to help the eye better focus on small print and nearby objects. The implant is aimed for aging baby boomers who suffer from age-related loss of focus (presbyopia). Dr. William Maisel of the FDA said in a news release, “Given the prevalence of presbyopia ...click here to read more

Patients with inherited high cholesterol have an increased risk of heart-related problems. The condition is known as heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and affects roughly 1.5 million Americans. The genes associated with this condition prevent the liver from removing LDL cholesterol from the blood, allowing for bad cholesterol to accumulate. The researchers reviewed data from six groups ...click here to read more

The FDA has advised against consuming raw cookie dough. Eating any type of rough dough is not recommended. Furthermore, children should not play with rough dough of any kind, as germs can grow and get on their hands. If their contaminated hands go into their mouths, they can become sick. Leslie Smoot, a senior advisor ...click here to read more

World Sjögren’s Day is July 23, and to get you ready we put together a list of our top articles that discuss Sjögren’s syndrome and accompanying factors and issues, including rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, depression, shingles, and atherosclerosis. Dr. Henrik Sjögren published his doctoral thesis on the condition in 1933, and since then thousands of patients ...click here to read more

It makes sense that July is UV Safety Month as that’s when the sun shines the most. Practicing UV safety is important because the sun’s rays can be quite harmful and can spoil your enjoyable summertime with unpleasant surprises. We want to make sure that you get the most out of your time in the ...click here to read more

Men are at a greater risk for cardiac arrest, compared to women. At least one in nine men will experience cardiac arrest before the age of 70, compared to one in 30 women. At the age of 45, men have an 11 percent higher lifetime risk of cardiac arrest, compared to only a three percent ...click here to read more

July is the National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, so we have compiled a list of our articles that discuss the topics of mental health, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, dementia, and depression. One in five Americans experience a mental health condition, and yet many sufferers don’t receive any treatment, as they are too ashamed or ...click here to read more

This week’s health news roundup includes recent stories about celiac disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This week, we discussed the benefits of going gluten-free in celiac disease, possible treatment for ulcerative colitis, risk of cancer in rheumatoid arthritis, positive impact of aquatic aerobics on fibromyalgia patients, and the problem ...click here to read more

The FDA puts under scrutiny the safety of hand sanitizer use. Millions of Americans use hand sanitizer daily, so the FDA undertook to investigate how safe it is. The FDA requested makers of hand sanitizers to provide data showing the products’ active ingredients actually reduce bacteria and are harmless over time. The largest concern was ...click here to read more

Couples with children are reported to be not as happy as their childless counterparts, according to new findings. The study analyzed 22 industrialized countries and found the largest happiness gap between couples with children and couples without children was in America. This trend is a result of poor policies implemented in the workplace with regards ...click here to read more

Heart failure patients don’t benefit from the antidepressant Lexapro, according to a German study. Lead researcher Dr. Christiane Angermann said, “Depression in heart failure may not be the same depression patients without heart failure get and who respond well to antidepressants.” Quite common in heart failure patients, depression is caused by the biological changes that ...click here to read more

Certain cancer drugs have been linked to joint and tissue problems, including arthritis. Dr. Clifton Bingham said, “We keep having referrals coming in from our oncologists as more patients are treated with these drugs. In particular, as more patients are treated with combinations of multiple immunotherapies, we expect the rate to go up.” Between 2012 ...click here to read more

A new study has a revealed that high blood pressure during pregnancy can result in heart troubles later on in life. These women are at a higher risk for metabolic syndrome after the baby is born. Metabolic syndrome involves having three or more of the following conditions: abdominal obesity, high triglyceride levels, low levels of ...click here to read more