The choice for a timely natural death begins with education. First, you must know your options - the steps you can take if you arrive at the point where you would prefer death to continued suffering.
I liken excessive use of salt to something akin to smoking or excessive drinking. Many people know that certain things are bad for their health yet continue to overindulge.
Starting on Monday February 22nd, HuffPost Green and HuffPost Eyes&Ears will be doing The Week of Eating In. For seven days, we'll invite you to eat in, aka COOK all of your own food for a week.
Snowmageddon. That's what many in the Washington, D.C. Metro area have called the recent onslaught of wintery weather that has descended upon our cit...
Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D. concluded, "This recovery of long-term memory was really the most remarkable finding. Memories are not really erased in disorders as Alzheimer's, but are rendered inaccessible."
Transplant may only occur between parties matching genetic tissue, requiring a donor who is of African descent. Unfortunately, this group is underrepresented within national bone marrow registries,
Do not let Senator Grassley tell us "it's on the back burner." We ALL deserve more than that - Republicans, Democrats, Independents, AMERICANS.
A study in the Journal Nature Genetics showed some people are genetically predisposed to age more rapidly than others. Age-associated diseases are more related to biological rather than chronological age.
Without access to reduced cost health care, the uninsured are more likely to wait longer, become sicker, and burden emergency departments, all at a greater cost to patient, facility, and taxpayer.
Innovation in the prevention of disease will be the key factor in realizing affordable healthcare. The paradigm shift is the result of maddening increases in medical insurance over the past decade.
Nightmares are one of the most debilitating symptoms of PTSD, affecting 70%-87% of patients suffering from the trauma. Fortunately, a surprising new treatment uses an old medicine to stop them.
According to a Gallup study, the most important factor in long-term happiness is doing work that you love and are passionate about.
For all its prevalence and impact on our society -- and one in five Americans will have a depression in their lifetimes -- depression just doesn't get the respect it deserves.
When it comes to improving the health of Americans, we normally talk about what happens in a doctor's office. And when it comes to improving educatio...
Since 2005, when I raised it from 400 to 1,000 IU, clinical evidence has been accumulating to suggest that a higher dose is more appropriate to help maintain optimum health.
Law of nature One. Go to bed. Don't think that you can cheat nature or your body for an extended period of time and everything will continue to work as it should. Get yourself to sleep already!
I feel so strongly about the need for stronger ties between the research and clinical communities that my new organization, The Child Study Center Foundation, has made these partnerships its central mission.
As a good health-seeking consumer, we need to be better served by the great wealth of environmental health research that is available -- increasing the capacities of physicians to use this information.
Had legislation been in place a year ago, things could have been different for Jake and for tens of thousands of other Americans. We need to strengthen the FDA and its ability to oversee our food supply.
Just because the sky is gray and the temperature is low, doesn't mean your mood has to be! Choosing the correct foods can give you more energy and help you handle those winter doldrums.
