Archive for May, 2009
HEALTH TIPS: Yoga and breast cancer
Health Tip – Audio Version – Yoga and breast cancer Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Breast Cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Recovering from breast cancer can be stressful. Gentle yoga can be relaxing. A researcher says breast cancer survivors who try yoga could find themselves feeling better about their lives. Alyson Moadel [...]
HEALTH TIPS: So how’s the family?
Health Tip – Audio Version – So how’s the family? Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Family History (National Library of Medicine) Thanksgiving is when the relatives show up, and everybody gets caught up on all the family doings. And that often includes who’s been sick, with what. And that, says Acting Surgeon General Steven [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Huffing and suicidality
Health Tip – Audio Version – Huffing and suicidality Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Huffing – deliberately inhaling fumes from household products as a way to get high – can lead to organ damage, convulsions, even death. And a researcher at the [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Low-fat eating versus ovarian cancer
Health Tip – Audio Version – Low-fat eating versus ovarian cancer Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Aim For A Healthy Weight (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) Low-fat eating patterns can pay off in lots of ways, and a study indicates a lower risk of ovarian cancer may be among them. Researchers looked at [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Personal foul!
Health Tip – Audio Version – Personal foul! Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Small Step Kids (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) Four typical kids are loafing around somebody’s den, about as inactive as you can be without sleeping, when a cartoon NFL referee barges in, with three real-life professional football stars. And: [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Unequal asthma
Health Tip – Audio Version – Unequal asthma Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Asthma (National Library of Medicine) Asthma is a chronic condition that affects the lungs and breathing — but it doesn’t affect everyone equally. The director of HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, says her agency has found [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Eat right, Baby
Health Tip – Audio Version – Eat right, Baby Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Eat and Exercise for Two (Office on Women’s Health) Want Baby to eat those green beans? Keep trying. A researcher who watched babies’ brows furrow and noses wrinkle when they were first getting the foods says the babies ate more, [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Risky cocktails
Health Tip – Audio Version – Risky cocktails Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: College Drinking – Changing the Culture (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) Researchers say mixing alcohol and high-caffeine energy drinks is big in college, but students who do it are more likely to be injured than students who only drank [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Walking away from the side effects
Health Tip – Audio Version – Walking away from the side effects Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Physical Activity and Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Even valuable medical treatments can have unwanted side effects. Hormone therapy for prostate cancer can leave men with weakened bones. However, researchers suggest a way to maintain [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Fighting a strong bug
Health Tip – Audio Version – Fighting a strong bug Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Healthcare-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking a germ called methicillin-resistant staph aureus, or MRSA, which is tough enough to fight common antibiotics. In a [...]