Managing Heartburn /Acid Reflux – Allopathic and Natural Treatments

Heartburn is a condition that affects 70 million individuals in the US – approximately 20 percent of the population – each year. It is caused by stomach acid returning to the esophagus from the stomach. Although it has nothing to do with the heart, the chest pain it causes is very similar to that of [...]

Trigger Finger Syndrome: Symptoms and Treatment Options

Trigger finger, or stenosing tenosynovitis, its proper name, is a snapping or clicking of any of the fingers when opened or closed. It can be either painful or painless. The digit locks in a bent position. To date the cause of trigger finger is not known, although where trauma occurs to the palm or the [...]

Seasonal Affective Disorder: Symptoms and Treatments for “SAD” Depression

First mentioned in medical literature in 1985, Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, also known as the winter blues or winter depression, is among the newer recognized medical conditions. It tends to affect those who live away from the equator, in northern climes, and is quite common in places where there is often snow for much [...]

Emotional Freedom Techniques and Core Belief Healing

What are Core Beliefs?
Core beliefs are those which the self holds to be true, either consciously or subconsciously. These deeply entrenched convictions can be positive or negative, and usually result from a lifetime of combined influences including family history, emotional trauma, and personal experience.
The quality of an individual’s core beliefs has a direct impact [...]

Are Prostate Cancer Screenings Truly Effective?

Since 1987, millions of men have been subjected to PSA testing for prostate cancer. Recent published studies, however, suggest that this screening may be largely responsible for a serious over-diagnosis of the disease over the past two decades.
What Is PSA Screening?
PSA is an acronym for prostate-specific antigen. Found in the blood, this protein [...]

Researchers Make Progress in Fight against Alzheimer’s

It is estimated that more than 26 million individuals worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of age-related dementia. In the United States, experts believe that as many as one in seven individuals over the age of 72 have some form of dementia and Alzheimer’s is expected to afflict more than 100 [...]

Cardiovascular Risk May Be Indicated by Some Unusual Factors

There are times when researchers uncover interesting collateral information when attempting to find answers to the most puzzling health questions. Over the past several years, many of these unusual findings have been related to an individual’s risk for developing heart disease.
Earlobe Creases
It sounds implausible and slightly amusing, but more than two dozen scientific studies [...]

Reducing Risks of Sudden Cardiac Arrest for Middle-Aged Male Athletes

Much has been made in recent media reports of young athletes succumbing to sudden cardiac arrest while participating in amateur and professional sports.
In 2008, Jason Stinson, a high school football coach from Kentucky, allegedly forced his team to run sprints at the end of a practice in 94-degree heat. One of Stinson’s young players [...]

Preventing Acute Anxiety from Becoming Chronic

For the majority of the population, anxiety, stress, fear and worry need do not cause illness, since strong feelings subside after the stressful situation has passed. Butterflies tend to abate once a speech has commenced before a large audience; fear immediately recedes when a mother learns that her son is unhurt and safe after [...]

Racial Gap in Prostate Cancer Narrowed

The prostate is a gland that is found only in the male. It is a walnut-sized gland that sits below the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube that conveys urine to the bladder and to the penis; this tube also carries semen. The prostate gland manufactures the thick clear fluid part of semen and [...]

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