Category: health-letter

The summertime brings a bounty of delicious fruits and vegetables that can boost health, such as Swiss chard, sweet red peppers, zucchini, and blackberries.

It appears that improving the doctor-patient relationship can produce health effects as beneficial as some common treatments, such as taking a daily aspirin to prevent heart attack.

Dark chocolate contains flavonols that help lower blood pressure and probably fight plaques of atherosclerosis.

Using antidepressants can be tricky, since it can’t be predicted exactly how someone will respond to treatment. There are four categories of antidepressants plus a few “atypicals” that have unique properties.

If a first-degree relative-a parent, sibling, or child-has developed certain cancers, then one’s own risk of getting the cancer is greater than the average person’s.

Increasing coffee intake by more than one cup per day may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Fewer men are being screened for prostate cancer since the 2012 recommendation against routine PSA screenings from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

Fuzzy thinking and memory loss is a normal part of aging. But behavioral strategies and memory-enhancing techniques can help improve the ability to learn new information and retain it over time.

Digital fitness monitors are great tools to track exercise and diet progress. They come in wearable styles such as wristbands, watches, and pendants, as well as hand-held pieces you can clip on a sleeve or slip into a pocket.

The lumbar or lower area of the spine can suffer from many different ailments that cause lower back pain, such as sprains and strains, herniated discs, and spinal stenosis.