Beth Howard

AARP

Health Hacks for Your Vacation

Small flashlight to check for creepy-crawlies
Examine your hotel mattress along its seams and where the headboard meets the wall for dark splotches, a telltale sign of bedbugs, recommends Dong-Hwan Choe, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside. Bedbugs are activated by heat, so you can also use a hair dryer to blow low heat over surfaces and see what crawls out.
Seltzer water to protect your gut
Sometimes even bottled water can be suspect. “In some poor places, people reloa...

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A New Study Finds That Physical Therapy After Breast Cancer Surgery Alleviates Problems With Arm Mobility and Lymphedema

Could a single session with a physical therapist improve women’s arm movement following breast cancer surgery? Apparently so.

The authors of a new study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Cancer Survivorship Symposium on Monday February 12 in San Francisco found that a tailored physical therapy exercise program sped the return of range of motion after axillary node dissection, in which lymph nodes, many near or under the arm, have been removed.

“We were pleasantly surpri...

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Good Doctoring Will Mean Keeping Patients Well

Eric M. Weil, a primary care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was worried about a patient – a recovering alcoholic who had previously been hospitalized due to his drinking. Now a close family member had died. "If he's ever going to start drinking, it's going to be now," Weil remembers thinking.

But Weil didn't have to leave his patient's fate to chance. Staffers of his practice reached out with a customized support plan. They called the man frequently, making sure that he w...

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6 Hacks for a Healthier Workspace

Quick. Are you sitting down? You might want to take a short sprint to the water cooler or just get up and stretch.
A growing body of research shows that logging long hours behind a desk raises the risk of chronic health ills like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, depression, and even cancer. “There’s a consistent association between sitting and health,” says Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD, associate executive director for population science at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, ...

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Home Remedies That Work

Home Remedies That Work

Got the sniffles? Feel a cold coming on? Take care of yourself. You may have some effective remedies right in your home. Evidence suggests that many of your grandma’s go-to fixes really do work, not only for colds and flus, but for a wide range of ailments. If you are very ill, don’t skip calling your doctor or taking first-line medications. But below are a few kitchen staples — and there are no doubt more — that can help with common health symptoms, whether or not you...

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A Hotter Climate Could Make You Sick

Leaving aside the debate over who or what is to blame, 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001 – and 2016 was the hottest ever. While the consequences of melting ice caps or vanishing species may seem remote, the health effects of a warming planet are already being felt, experts warn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a Climate and Health Program in 2009 to address the issue, although its future is uncertain. A CDC conference on the subject that had...

Women's Health Magazine

Birth Control: 5 Surprising Effects of The Pill

By Beth Howard
The Pill and...
Just when you though...

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How Colleges Are Battling Sexual Violence

Many schools are revamping their reporting programs and the most responsive institutions are now teaching classes on prevention and healthy relationships. ...