MONDAY, Sept. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Home blood pressure monitoring can improve control of high blood pressure and reduce health care costs. That’s the conclusion of a preliminary study that included 2,550 adults with uncontrolled high blood pressure. They each received free home blood pressure monitors, online and printContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Survivors of serious bloodstream infections called sepsis are at increased risk for stroke and heart attack for four weeks after leaving the hospital, a new study finds. The study included roughly 42,300 sepsis patients in Taiwan. Of those, 22 percent died within 30Continue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 10, 2018 (HealthDay News) — College can be so stressful that many students think about killing themselves, and some even try, a new study suggests. Among more than 67,000 students surveyed, over 20 percent said they experienced stressful events in the last year that were strongly associated withContinue Reading
Oxycontin’s Maker Now Selling Drug to Curb Opioid Addiction
Star-Studded ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ Telethon Raises $123 Million
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(HealthDay News) — As teens and children re-enter the classroom after summer vacation, it’s time for parents and teachers to instill healthy behaviors that should last into adulthood. That means discouraging alcohol use, drug use and violence, which studies have associated with lower grades, the Centers for Disease Control andContinue Reading
SUNDAY, Sept. 9, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Starting college can be daunting, but there are a number of things new students can do to ease into this experience, a psychologist suggests. “As freshman — and their parents — begin the first semester of college, it’s important to realize that notContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Sept. 8, 2018 (HealthDay News) — With the U.S. Open championship set to conclude Sunday in New York City, a new study shows that male and female professional tennis players have the same rate of age-related declines in physical ability. This was a surprising finding because men and womenContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) — New to weight loss or tired of yo-yo dieting? Learning “stability skills” first may lead to greater long-term weight loss success. Many dieters regain up to 50 percent of the weight they lose within a year because they abandon the healthy lifestyle changesContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Sleep apnea is common — but rarely diagnosed — among black Americans, researchers say. The new study included 852 black men and women, average age 63, in Jackson, Miss., who were participants in the Jackson Heart Sleep Study. The investigators found that 24Continue Reading
Southwest Airlines Passengers May Have Been Exposed to Measles
Diet, Exercise Help Reduce Overweight Women’s Pregnancy Weight Gain: Study
Actor Burt Reynolds Dies at 82
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Reaches Settlement in False Ad Lawsuit
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