A personal approach to heart failure
A self-care plan can help keep people with heart failure healthy and active. This advice will also be helpful to the people caring for those with heart failure.
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Month: April 2010
On call: Performance anxiety
I’m a 38-year-old junior executive. Every time I have to make a presentation, I get terribly nervous, making it very hard for me to get through my talk. I’ve heard there is a pill that can help, but I don’t want to take tranquilizers. What do you suggest?
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Lifestyle prevention: Does it work? And why?
Living a healthy lifestyle is the surest way to delay or prevent illness. Research is confirming that following simple, prudent health habits increases longevity and quality of life, and even making one or two changes is better than doing nothing.
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Treating prostate cancer, Part V: Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is a good choice for men with early prostate cancer if they are older or if surgery would be risky. The radiation can be applied externally or internally, though both options have advantages and disadvantages.
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Food-borne illnesses, Part I: The big picture
With worldwide growth in agribusiness and a growing portion of our food supply coming from other nations, food-borne illnesses and food safety are of great importance.
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Know the warning signs
Many people do not know or recognize the warning signs of a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac arrest. Because the brain may be deprived of oxygen during such an event, quick action could save someone’s life.
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In the journals: Yoga may help improve women’s sexual function
Researchers in India found that women who participated in a daily yoga program experienced improvement in several aspects of sexual function.
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Heart beat: Heart disease a major killer among people with HIV/AIDS
People living with HIV are more susceptible to heart disease, so it is important for them to stay healthy and fit, in order to ward off risk factors like high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, and hypertension.
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Heart Beat: Traffic, anger strain the heart
A study of German heart attack survivors found a slight correlation between being stuck in traffic and risk of a heart attack.
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Heart Beat: Bypass surgery no barrier to sexual satisfaction
A survey of patients both before and several years after bypass surgery found that men were more satisfied with their sex lives than before surgery, but women were less satisfied than before.
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