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WHO Releases List of Top 10 Threats to Global Health
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Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) compiles a list of the world’s most significant health threats in the hopes of finding ways to solve them. This year’s greatest threats to global health are:1. Air pollution2. Lifestyle-related deaths3. Influenza4. Poor living conditions5. Antimicrobial resistance6. High-threat pathogens7. Poor primary healthcare8. Vaccine hesitancy9. Dengue fever10. HIVLet's... 3/4/2019 8:00:00 AM
John Arden, PhD, ABPP
The Science Behind Why Our Mind and Body Thrive When Our Relationships Do
by John Arden, PhD, ABPP
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How does the feeling of individuality emerge? How do body sensations, emotion, and cognition interact to self-organize into the emergence of a self? For that matter, what do we mean by the term “mind?” Insights into the emergence of the mind, subjectivity and emotion can be achieved by considering neuroscience research into the mind’s operating networks: The salience network, sometimes called the “feeling... 3/4/2019 8:00:00 AM
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How Alcohol Consumption Alters Our DNA
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Heavy drinkers can add one more worry to their list of potential health concerns. Excessive alcohol use can cause permanent changes to our DNA. These changes can result in increased cancer risks (especially gastrointestinal and reproductive types), disordered immune function and numerous other illnesses. The genetic changes might even intensify alcohol cravings and a desire to binge drink, even triggering... 3/4/2019 8:00:00 AM
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The Basics of Heart Disease and Its Prevention
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We are into the 20th year of the millenium, and while the world has seen unprecedented and exponential growth and advancements in almost every sector, there’s another area that we've all seen grow rapidly – stress levels.With bustling lives becoming busier and more and more competitive, the stress levels have risen gradually over the years and have reached a crescendo, as a result of which, we are... 3/3/2019 8:00:00 AM
Megan Johnson McCullough
Aloe Vera: The Healing Gel
by Megan Johnson McCullough
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The gel from aloe vera has been used for thousands of years for its healing purposes. It is a type of succulent plant with many medicinal purposes. The gel inside the plant is gooey and thick, and it is most commonly used to alleviate sun burns and is consumed in juice form for its health benefits. It is a juice with no sugar.Aloe vera gel makes the skin soft, therefore many lotions contain this ingredient.... 3/2/2019 10:00:00 PM
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The Controversial HPV Vaccine: Is it Saving People or Killing Them?
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Both sides are passionate about the issue, which has become as polarized as any political hot topic. One side says that the HPV vaccination (specifically the Gardisil vaccine) is safe, and that it’s vital to ending cervical and other cancers associated with the human papilloma virus (HPV). The other side says it’s harming, and even killing, healthy teenage kids and has no place in preventative medicine.... 3/2/2019 10:00:00 PM
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Overdose Deaths Linked to Marketing and Doctor Greed
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About 130 Americans die every day of opioid overdoses, and the majority of them are using valid prescriptions. Despite the risks, doctors continue to over-prescribe narcotic painkillers, which creates the perfect setting for addiction and misuse. Just as concerning is the money trail that traces directly to the rates in which doctors are prescribing these powerful and highly addictive drugs.Addicts... 2/28/2019 10:00:00 PM
Trish Barillas
4 Ways To Take Anxiety Out of Getting Engaged
by Trish Barillas
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Anxiety has recently become a popular topic to discuss these days due to our willingness to share what we now understand to be a very human issue. As a long time anxiety sufferer turned anxiety expert, I feel more validated and less alone to see us having a more open dialogue about what has for so long been a private anguish.From first hand experience, I know how severe anxiety can be as it relates... 2/28/2019 8:00:00 AM
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This Common Household Item Could Stop the Flu in its Tracks
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Flu season is in full-force and is likely to last till May. The unfortunate truth is most people don’t know how to keep their germs to themselves. You can wash your hands and disinfect surfaces, but stray viruses can linger in the air, just waiting to be inhaled. Not to mention what you bring into your own home after being out and about for the day. Fortunately, you can eradicate most of those nasty... 2/28/2019 8:00:00 AM
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This Common Household Item Could Stop the Flu in Its Tracks
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Flu season is in full-force and is likely to last till May. The unfortunate truth is that many people, especially kids, don’t know how to keep their germs to themselves. You can wash your hands and disinfect surfaces, but stray viruses can linger in the air, just waiting to be inhaled. Not to mention the germs you bring into your home after being out and about for the day. Fortunately, you can eradicate... 2/28/2019 8:00:00 AM
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