Category: Women’s Health

If you have asthma, COPD, or both, getting the right mix of inhaled medications is critical to controlling your condition.

Aerobic exercise, the Mediterranean diet, social connectedness, and undertaking challenges reduce the risk of dementia.

A new analysis from the Nurses’ Health Study links adherence to the Mediterranean diet with greater longevity.

Despite evidence that radiation therapy doesn’t affect recurrence in women over 70 with early breast cancer, almost two-thirds of women continued to get radiation.

One healthy habit can reduce stroke risk in women by a fourth; two, by a third; three or four, by nearly half; and four by almost two-thirds.

Pneumonia can be life-threatening in people over 65. The high-strength flu vaccine and two pneumonia vaccines are recommended.

These resolutions can improve your health: floss, walk more, eat healthier, learn a new skill, make new friends, lose weight, stop smoking.

Capsules containing frozen donated fecal matter eradicated drug-resistant diarrhea in 90% of patients treated in a pilot study.

Plantar fasciitis usually gets better without medical treatment. Stretching and weight training can speed the process.

Light is the most effective treatment for the winter blues. Outdoor light is best. People with SAD benefit from light boxes and SSRI antidepressants.