For people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), short winter days often mean misery. Symptoms of SAD may include intense mood swings, strong food cravings, overwhelming fatigue, sleeping too much, and general malaise. Other symptoms include anxiety, lethargy, difficulty sleeping, and social and sexual problems. Here’s how you can beat seasonal affective disorder this winter. About […]
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Are you among the thousands of people pledging to lose thirty pounds, quit smoking, eat healthier, run a marathon, save money, go back to school, or any of the thousands of other pledges people make to themselves every January 1? Do your resolutions usually last much longer than January 15? Thought not. It may be
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With Christmas right around the corner, many procrastinating parents, aunts, uncles, grandmas, and grandpas are madly scrambling to find last-minute gifts for the kids on their holiday gift lists. Should you choose educational toys? Video games? Electronic gadgets? Old-fashioned toys? If you’re one of those procrastinating parents, don’t despair. Here are some guidelines for choosing
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Is there a caregiver on your holiday gift list this year? If so, you’re not alone. With an estimated 65 million informal and family caregivers in the United States, representing about 29 percent of the U.S. population, there are plenty of caregivers out there who need some caring themselves this holiday season. Caregiving can be
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The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has declared November 2011 “American Diabetes Month.” The slogan is “Stop Diabetes” accompanied by a picture of a lovely, trim, young lady with a hand outstretched like a traffic cop. The ADA maps out a truly ambitious plan for its “Stop Diabetes Movement,” urging people to get involved in multiple ways. So how do we stop diabetes? YourMedicalSource spoke with Dr. Joel Zonszein, Director of the Clinical Diabetes Center of Montefiore Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York.
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Kids drink as many or more sugary drinks when schools ban only soda – and not other sugar-sweetened beverages – as in schools that do nothing to decrease children’s access to high-calorie beverages. Even more discouraging, comprehensive policies banning sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda in school are only slightly more effective. Schools that ban all
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Scheduled for a colonoscopy? Ask your physician to play Mozart while she’s peering through that endoscope, and she may do a better job of detecting potentially cancerous polyps in your colon and rectum, called adenomas. Colonic polyps are common precursors to colon cancer. Adenomas are a type of polyp that may develop into invasive colorectal
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Honey may be an effective home remedy for cough, especially for children. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against the use of dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant found in over-the-counter cough and cold formulations such as Robitussen DM and Children’s Dimetapp DM. But when a child is up all night coughing, what’s a parent to do?
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Halloween is the night of costumes and jack o’ lanterns, scarecrows and goblins, candy and stomach-aches. Yet far too often, it is also a night of tragedy. A study conducted by SafeKids USA shows that twice as many children are killed in pedestrian versus vehicle collisions on Halloween as on any other night of the
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Studies have shown that seven out of ten carseats are installed incorrectly. Most often, seatbelts are not tightly secured or the seat is improperly positioned in the car. Here are a few tips for installing a car seat safely in your own vehicle: Read the car seat manual and your vehicle owner’s manual before you
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Influenza and its complications killed 115 children and teens in the United States during 2010-2011, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported on September 16. Many of those deaths could have been prevented if the children had been vaccinated against the flu, the CDC said in a separate press release. Of children and
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Exercise can act as a second antidepressant medication for some people, effectively eliminating symptoms of depression when combined with one antidepressant drug. But men and women need different types and intensities of physical activity to get the greatest mental health benefits. In a recent study, researchers tested the effects of different exercise programs’ effects on
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