Tag: disease
Do You Have Symptoms of Alzheimer’s?
Everyone gets a little forgetful from time to time. Particularly when you are under a lot of stress, and once you enter middle age,...
Flaws in Airport Disease Screening Systems Leave Room for Improvement
Airplanes have long been known as a hotbed for germs - with all those people packed together on a single aircraft, one person coughing...
It Isn’t Just the Elderly Who Are at Risk for Alzheimer’s
Not to be mistaken with middle-age forgetfulness, early-onset Alzheimer's is the occurrence of the disease in individuals under the age of 65. In fact,...
Study: Helping Older Individuals Sleep Translates to Lower Disease Risk
It is no secret that chronic insomnia can wreak absolute havoc on our health. Sleep is the body's restoration phase: it is the time...
The Bourbon Virus: Another Reason to Watch Out for Ticks
Some of you may recall the rather sudden and unexpected hospitalization and death of a Kansas farmer last summer. Well, experts have zeroed in...
Toxic Fungi May Help Scientists Combat Deadly Diseases
We often hear that we should never eat mushrooms that we find in the wild, because they could be toxic. This is true -...
How You Can Fight Disease with Sleep
Researchers have recently found scientific evidence for what our mothers and grandmothers have been telling us for years: that the most important thing we...
Chronic Low Dose of Arsenic in Water Implicated in Serious Health...
The deadly effects of arsenic in large doses are well-known. However, what has not been clear until recently is the sickening effects of arsenic...
Living Longer but Living Sicker
A new study, reported last month by CBS News, found that although the life expectancy of Americans has been slowly increasing, obesity rates continue...
Will Insurance Premiums Skyrocket Now that Obesity is a Disease?
Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) met last week in Chicago and voted to consider obesity as a disease, despite opposition from the...
