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The Growing Cost of Aging
With the election looming, we’ve heard a lot of rhetoric about healthcare. Rising costs, limited access, reforming Medicare…the list goes on and on. Whatever happens on November 6, it seems the...
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Think Before You Eat!
Tempted to have a burger and fries this lunchtime? It wouldn’t hurt once in a while, right? Not so fast. Maybe it is time to think outside the bun after all. According to new research from the...
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Sleeping Your Way to Success
As the fall semester winds down at colleges and universities, countless students will doubtless be pulling all-night study sessions to prepare for upcoming exams. Fueled by Red Bull, Monster energy...
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Fend off a 2nd Heart Attack with Fruit and Fiber
Each year, at least 20 million people worldwide survive a heart attack or stroke. Most of them, will then be prescribed a veritable cocktail of drugs including lipid-lowering agents, beta blockers,...
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Ho Ho Ho: health hazards for Santa
After weeks of harried holiday shopping, when the stores finally close on the evening of December 24, it will be a welcome reprieve from the madness. Families and friends gather together and enjoy a...
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Don’t Ignore the Snore
Think for a moment about the factors that influence health. Chances are you thought about: smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and insufficient exercise. Maybe you added in family...
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An Aspirin A Day…Takes Your Sight Away?
SRxA’s Word on Health has frequently reported on the health benefits of aspirin. So we were more than a little shocked to read a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine which suggested that people who...
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Papal Poor Health
On February 11, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Catholic Church and the world when he announced his resignation by saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to carry on. At 8pm local time...
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Teaching your child the ABC’s of Heart Health
Heart disease is not a major cause of death among children and teenagers, but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention it is the largest cause of death among adults in the United...
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Tee-Total but Drinking Yourself to Death?
According to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism meeting last week, sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and...
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Bypassing Genetic Obesity Genes?
Fact. Obese mothers tend to have kids who themselves will become obese. Fact. In 2012, 35.7% of US adults and 16.9% of US children age 2 to 19 were obese, according to the CDC Fact. Half of all U.S....
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NSAID’s in the News (again)
Let me start by saying, that despite spending the last 20-something years in or around the pharmaceutical industry, I don’t like taking pills. That said, I’m not particularly partial to pain either. So...
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Sleep Better, Look Better
Getting treatment for a common sleep problem may do more than help you sleep better – it may help you look better too. So says new research study from the University of Michigan Health System and...
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Is Your Student Safe?
The beginning of another school year means the beginning of school sports including football, soccer, cross country and swimming. All too often, school sports result in injuries to athletes and, in...
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