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Health Tips: Meditation May Reduce Death, Heart Attack, and Stroke in Heart Patients
January 1st, 2013African-Americans with heart disease who practiced transcendental meditation regularly were 48 percent less likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or die from all causes compared with African-Americans who attended a health education class over more than five years, according to new research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Health Tips: Osteoporosis Risk Factors After Menopause
January 1st, 2013A preliminary study of 127 postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy in Portugal suggests that age, low bone-mineral-density, a sedentary lifestyle, coffee consumption, and oophorectomy are all risk factors associated with osteoporosis and bone fracture.
Health Tips: Patients Shy Away from Asking Healthcare Workers to Wash Hands
January 1st, 2013According to a new study, most patients at risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) agree that healthcare workers should be reminded to wash their hands, but little over half would feel comfortable asking their physicians to wash. The study points to the need for patient empowerment to improve hand hygiene of healthcare workers.
Are We Finally Heading toward a “Therapeutic Order” for the Nation?
January 1st, 2013The overlapping fields of complementary, holistic, natural, whole-person, alternative, and integrative health and medicine can seem unruly, confusing, and impossible to get your mind around. With literally hundreds of approaches, therapies, and disciplines in the mix, how do you organize your relationship to it?
Condition Spotlight: Inflammation
January 1st, 2013Did you know there is both good and bad inflammation? The term “inflammation” most likely brings to mind thoughts of pain, swelling, and redness in response to an acute injury or wound. But pain is not always bad: this is the body’s way of telling us something is wrong and must be addressed in order to heal.
Cooling down chronic inflammation
Health Tips: Resveratrol May Preserve Effects of Morphine
November 1st, 2012Resveratrol—the same natural polyphenol found in red wine—preserves the potent pain-relieving effect of morphine in rats that have developed morphine tolerance, suggests a study in the October issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
Health Tips: Exercise Boosts Satisfaction with Life
November 1st, 2012Having a bad day? Extend your normal exercise routine by just a few minutes! According to Penn State researchers, people’s satisfaction with life was actually higher on days when they exercised more than usual.
Health Tips: Relief from Arthritis Pain
November 1st, 2012For those suffering from osteoarthritis of the knees or hands, applying topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the form of creams, gels, or patches can bring weeks of pain relief, finds a new review by The Cochrane Library.
Health Tips: A Daily Apple Lowers Chemical Linked to Hardening of the Arteries
November 1st, 2012Eating an apple a day might in fact help keep the cardiologist away, new research suggests. In a study of healthy, middle-aged adults, consumption of one apple a day for four weeks lowered blood levels of a substance linked to hardening of the arteries by 40 percent. Taking capsules containing polyphenols—of the type found in apples—had a similar but less potent effect.
Health Tips: Pterostilbene Reduces Blood Pressure in Adults
November 1st, 2012A form of pterostilbene, a compound found naturally in blueberries, reduces blood pressure in adults according to results of a clinical trial presented at the American Heart Association’s 2012 Scientific Sessions on High Blood Pressure Research.
