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Nearly 1 in 4 Americans Expected to Have Hearing Loss by 2060
More Americans are expected to lose their hearing in the coming decades, according to a recent report.
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The Next Step in Recovery After a Heart Attack: Cardiac Rehab
Exercising may not be the first thing you think about if you’ve had a heart attack, heart failure, stent replacement or angioplasty or other heart issues. You may break into a sweat just thinking about intentionally raising your heart rate as you recover emotionally and physically. Will your heart withstand the stress of exercise? What can you do to know how much to exercise without damaging your heart?
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Is It a Typical Headache or Something More Serious? These Tests Can Help You Find Out
If you have frequent headaches, dizziness, seizures or pain or weakness in your hand, your doctor may arrange for you to have neurodiagnostic testing. These outpatient tests can help diagnose a variety of disorders of the brain and nervous system.
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In The Media… Shining a Spotlight on Nutrition
Over the last few months, there’s been a lot of talk in the media about the effect a diet high in animal fats can have on our health and mortality. To summarize, the narrative suggests that a diet rich in animal fats – including chicken, fish, eggs and dairy, as well red meats like beef and pork – is the root cause of such chronic medical conditions as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and even Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, recent media events have pointed out that processed meats like hot dogs, salami, bologna and other deli meats are ranked alongside cigarettes, asbestos and plutonium as a Group 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Understanding the Emotional Side of Cancer Treatment
Between chemotherapy, radiation, frequent doctor’s visits and some of the side effects of cancer treatment, we often focus on how patients physically cope with the disease.
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Is Your Sleep Tracker Ruining Your Rest?
Sleep has become a hot topic in recent years, in part due to the rising popularity of tracking technologies. Ten percent of American adults now use devices to ensure a quality night’s sleep, according to the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. However, using these monitoring devices can trigger or worsen sleeplessness, and has even given rise to a new term, orthosomnia, an obsession with attaining the “perfect sleep.” In these cases, patients report feelings of failure, anxiety and insomnia if tracking benchmarks are not met.
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Doctors Sometimes Prescribe Drugs Patients Don’t Need
More than a quarter of doctors admit to prescribing medication that likely won’t have many therapeutic benefits for patients, according to a recent survey of more than 5,000 American College of Physicians (ACP) member physicians.
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5 Reasons You Should See an Athletic Trainer
One of the first athletic trainers was hired by Harvard University to care for its football team — back in the 1880s. Fast forward more than a century to 1991, when athletic training was recognized as an allied health care profession by the American Medical Association. Since then, the science behind athletic training has advanced substantially.
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Struggling to Have a Baby? It Could be Male Infertility
As a couple, the next step in your relationship after marriage is often having children. Excited to start a family, you and your spouse try and try to have a baby, yet you still have trouble achieving a pregnancy. You begin to worry. Then, frustration and panic sets in. Now what?
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Preserve Your Hip Now To Avoid Replacing It Later
Most hip replacements are prompted by severe cases of osteoarthritis, a disease that damages the cartilage that cushions the joint. When the hip joint reaches that point, a replacement is often the only solution.
