Helpful Healthcare Links for August 24, 2016

Young woman with stomach issuesThere is a lot going on in healthcare news this week! I have put together a handful of trending health topics to share with you in hopes that this information will assist you in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here are a few health articles for this week.

Unexplained fatigue? Joint pain and swelling? Seizures? These symptoms, combined with several others, could be lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease most commonly found in women. Knowing the signs and symptoms of lupus could be a matter of life or death for you or a loved one.

Bloating always seems to happen at the worst time, like a fun day at the beach or even on your wedding day. Turns out, this unwelcome digestive discomfort could be due to FODMAPs — Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides, and Polyols — which are basically sugar molecules that don’t digest properly and cause bloating.

Some teens are over medicated. Whether it be for ADHD, depression or acne, many kids are on at least one prescription drug. Suicide is the leading cause of death in teens, and studies have found a link between prescription drug use and teenage suicide.

Your eye color, your height and your skin tone are influenced by genes. But did you know that looking to your parents’ health can determine your life expectancy and your heart health?

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Helpful Healthcare Links for July 20, 2016

Happy Mid Adult Woman Sitting By Window At HomeThere’s a lot going on in healthcare news this week! I have put together a handful of trending health topics to assist you in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here are a few health articles for this week:

A woman’s 30sare a thriving point in her life; she has a booming career, she’s may be married, and she may have children. Being so busy, some women often let health and wellness fall to the wayside. But the way you take care of your health in your 30ssets the stage for decades to come.

We all know that saturated fats are bad for our health. But a new study has found that eating good fats, such as olive oil, can cut one’s risk of death by almost 30 percent. Learn more about the different types of fat and which good fats you should be incorporating in to your diet.

Every year women set up appointments for routine gynecologist visits. And every year women dread going to it. It can be nerve-wracking and uncomfortable. Well, a new governmental task force says that there is no evidence proving that routine pelvic exams are necessary for healthy women of reproductive age.

Man’s best friend, loyal companion, cancer sniffing expert? Yes, we are talking about dogs. We’ve heard of leader dogs and even behavior dogs, but now these lovable canines are being trained to sniff out cancer! There’s no doubt that dogs have an impeccable sense of smell, so why not put it to good use?

In a tech-filled world, more healthcare professional are going electronic when it comes to providing patient care. Not only have their records gone electronic, but even their visits are done via computer! This allows patients practically immediate access to health advice from the comforts of their own home.

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Helpful Healthcare Links for June 9, 2016

There’s a lot going on in healthcare news this week! I have put together a handful of trending health Nutrition informationtopics to share with you in hopes that this information will assist you in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here are a few health articles for this week:

Nutrition labels on food are finally getting an update, 20 years in the making! These changes are based off of advances in nutrition science, changes in dietary recommendations, as well as other factors. These labels will bring forward different, more realistic, serving sizes. As well as guidelines for what manufacturers can call certain additives such as sugars — they will no longer be able to disguise sugars by fancy names. Check out this article to learn more about what the new nutrition labels will look like.

We all know that healthcare costs are outrageous nowadays. Some prescriptions drugs cost tens of thousands of dollars, and most chemotherapy treatments leave families broke and drowning in debt. If I were to ask you which healthcare services carry the biggest price tag, what would you say? Would you be surprised to know it is mental health services? To learn more about the growing cost of mental health services follow the link below.

As the sun starts to get stronger and we spend more time outdoors, sunburns tend to become common place. We all know that sunburns can be dangerous and just one burn can dramatically increase ones risk for skin cancer. But when has your sunburn gone too far and turned into sun poisoning? Read this article to better understand the differences between the two and when you should seek medical help.

We’ve all played Dr. Google once or twice in our life. We surf the web and diagnose ourselves with some rare, deadly disease based off of our wide range of symptoms. Well things have been taken a step further, you can get real, medical treatment online! You can get answers to all of your burning health questions right from the comforts of your own home. But is this safe? This article goes in to detail on if the care you’re getting through the web is as good as what you would get in the doctors office.

 

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