Prevention

The Prevention Of Alzheimer's Disease

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Elderly, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Assisted Living, Prevention, Health, Causes of Dementia, Health Care, Wellness, Living News
Scott Mendelson, M.D.

Many individuals have come to my Psychiatry office asking if their elderly parent's or grandparent's diagnosis of Alzheimer's has doomed them as well to a future of dementia. The answer is, "Probably not."

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The Fatal Prescription Pad

Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Prescription Drug Abuse, Antibiotic Resistance, Prevention, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Antibiotics, Doctors, Penicillin, Prescription Painkillers, Wellness, Living News
Deepak Chopra

It's well known that the most expensive medical technology in America is a doctor's ballpoint pen. But now we discover that the prescription pad can also be deadly.

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New Guidelines For Mammography : A Reason For Celebration

Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Biopsy, Mammography, Women's Health, Prevention, Health, Living News
Dr. Erika Schwartz

As a practicing physician and opinion leader in the prevention movement, I welcome the mammography guidelines and would like to share with you my personal and clinical understanding of their meaning.

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A Commonsense Approach To Cancer Prevention?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 12.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Leukemia, National Institues of Health, Breast Cancer, Prevention, Disease, Mount Sinai, Asthma, Phil Landrigan, Cancer, Nicolas Kristof, Health, Living News
Christopher Gavigan

Billions more are spent every year on research to find new treatments and cures for cancer. It's one of the most common diseases and one of the most costly. Why, then, is there so little focus on prevention?

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10 Reasons I Quit Smoking

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking, Bad Habits, Recovery, Nicotine, Cigarettes, Prevention, Addiction and Recovery, Well-Being, Health, Addiction, Quitting Smoking, Cancer, Cigarette Tax, Wellness, Living News
Therese Borchard

You're almost there. You want to quit. In fact, 80 percent of your brain is sure you can. But 20 percent insists that you can't. How do you make it over to the other side without falling SPLAT on your face?

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Engaging With Health Care: How A 'Going Healthy' Movement Can Save America

Erica Jain | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Integrative Medicine, Duke, Preventive Medicine, Prevention, Holistic Medicine, Health, Going Green, Health Care, Duke University, Wellness, Living News
Erica Jain

A "going healthy" movement would synergize an individual's relationship with the health care system -- empowering individuals to take control of their health instead of delegating issues to governments.

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The Secret History Of Mammography

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Public Health Care, Breast Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Screenings, Prevention, Mammogram, Health, Living News
Devra Davis, Ph.D.

Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.

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Should Insurance Companies Pay For Preventive Care?

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Health Insurance, Health Care, Prevention, Lifestyle, Preventive Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Tara Stiles, Meditation, Wellness, Living News
Tara Stiles

It's all where your priorities are. You have to want it for yourself. A regular practice puts you back in touch with you. You don't need all the stuff to be happy.

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Learning From the Fort Hood Tragedy: Comments from an Expert on Suicide and Violence

Lisa Firestone | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatrists, Mental Health, Major Hasan, Violence and Suicide, Prevention, Violence Prevention, Fort Hood, Psychologists, Military Personnel, Mental Health System, Ft Hood, Living News
Lisa Firestone

This misfortune points toward major flaws in our mental health system for military personnel, including the mental health of psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors treating our troops.

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Prevention: Popular Provisions Have Been Largely Overlooked in Health Reform

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Health, Health Care Reform, Trust for America's Health, Prevention, Pre-Existing-Condition, Health Care, Living News
Jeffrey Levi

The Trust for America's Health released a public opinion poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that found that disease prevention and public health are among the most popular proposals on the table.

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Oprah Fitness Guru Talks About Diabetes (VIDEO)

Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Preventive Medicine, Type 2 Diabetes, Prevention, Exercise, Health, Diabetes, Diet, Living News

Bob Greene, Oprah's fitness guru, shared tips from his book The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes on Good Morning America this mor...

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An Economy In Need Of Holistic Medicine

nytimes.com | ANAND GIRIDHARADAS | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Holistic Medicine, Prevention, Economy, Employment, Western Medicine, Wellness, Living News

Western medical practices have attracted similar criticisms in recent years, for an emphasis on intervening in disease rather than preventing it befor...

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Heart Disease: A Toothless Paper Tiger That Need Never Exist

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Heart Disease, Health, Surgery, Prevention, Nutrition, Plant-Based Diet, Health Care, Living News
Kathy Freston

I have sought to understand the link between diet and the dreaded diseases that are prevalent in our culture. Following is a fascinating conversation I had on diet and heart health.

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Front Food Labels are Misleading: FDA is Ready to Tackle Food Manufacturers

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Barbara Ficarra, Take Charge of Health, Ingredients, Front Food Labels, Misleading Front Food Labels, Healthy Eating, healthin30, Front of Packages (FOP), Prevention, Healthy Choices, Food Labels, Living News
Barbara Ficarra

The next time you head out for food shopping, read the ingredients on the side or back label. The ingredients will give you a better idea if the product you are about to buy is healthy or not.

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Rescuing Health Reform: Why Doctors Should Practice Lifestyle Medicine

Huffington Post | Mark Hyman, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, and Mike Roizen, MD | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care, Mark Hyman MD, Dean Ornish, Mark Hyman, Dean Ornish Md, Dr. Dean Ornish, Mike Roizen, Prevention, Dr. Mike Roizen, Health Care Reform, Dr. Mark Hyman, Lifestyle Medicine, Medicine, Functional Medicine, Mike Roizen Md, Living News

We must not only change who is covered but also what is covered to include personalized lifestyle medicine if we are to make current treatments more effective and less costly.

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We Need Health Care, Not Disease Care

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Heath, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Prevention, Disease, President Obama, Alzheimer's, Obama, Health Care, Scott Mendelson, Wellness, Barack Obama, Elderly, Aging, Living News
Scott Mendelson, M.D.

The dollar costs of caring for the increasing numbers of elderly Americans expected to develop Alzheimer's dementia over the next 30 years will decimate the personal savings of millions of families.

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Walking for a Cause: Eating Disorder Awareness

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Dr. Susan Albers, Treatment, Eating Disorders, Prevention, National Eating Disorders Association, Body Image, New York City, Mindful Eating, Eating Mindfully, Living News
Dr. Susan Albers

See a Two Minute Video: Join Dr. Susan Albers on the walk: http://www.youtube.com On October 11th the very first National Eating Disorders Associ...

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Breast Cancer Death Rates Continue To Drop 2% Annually

forbes.com | Thomas F. Cooley | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Prevention, Health, Death, Living News

Fewer women in the United States are dying from breast cancer, but disparities in death rates still exist between whites and blacks, a new report show...

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The Low Hanging Fruit of Pandemic Flu Prevention

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Centers for Disease Control, Cdc, Prevention, Pneumonia, Swine Flu, Pneumococcal Vaccine, H1n1, Vaccines, Politics News
Dr. Orin Levine

While you go out to get your flu vaccines check to see if you should also get the pneumococcal vaccine, and think about how you might help give access to these vaccines to millions of children who need them.

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Nutrition: 9 In 10 High Schoolers Short On Fruits, Veggies

usatoday.com | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Public Schools, Fruits, Healthy Living, The Balanced Life, Parenting Tips, Prevention, Kids, Health, Nutrition, Vegetables, High School, Parenting, Wellness, Living News

Less than 10% of U.S. high school students are eating the combined recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables, a finding that the U.S. Centers ...

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More Than Half Million Kids React Badly To Drugs

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Hospitalization, Kids, Children, Prevention, Health, Side Effects, Prescription Drugs, Antibiotics, Medical Treatment, Drugs, Medicine, Penicillin, Children's Health, Drug, Wellness, Living News

CHICAGO — More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treat...

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Do Your Part For Health Care: Get Healthy Already!

Tara Stiles | Posted 11.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Weight Loss, Prevention, Health Care, Health, Tara Stiles, Get Healthy, Wellness, Living News
Tara Stiles

Irresponsibility isn't exclusive to bankers. The same unintelligent, unconscious, destructive behavior occurs on a daily basis when it comes to health choices.

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How To Live On $0 A Day: This Could Be the Best Health Care Reform Plan You're Gonna Get

Lesley Stern | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Healthy Living, Depression, Lifestyle, Department of Health and Human Services, Humor, Economy, Economic Crisis, Health Insurance, Advice, Wellness, Recession, Financial Meltdown, Organic Food, Prevention, Exercise, Health, Satire, Insomnia, Living, Quit Smoking, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Comedy, Sleep, Michelle Obama, Bill Maher, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Sex is also a good, inexpensive form of exercise that doesn't require getting out of bed (although it may compel you to leave the fetal position). This will require a partner since batteries are costly.

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Green Tea May Benefit Bone Health

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Bone, Bones, Prevention, Osteoporosis, Health, Women's Health, Calcium, Metabolism, Wellness, Calcium Supplements, Osteoporosis Treatment, Living News

New research from Hong Kong found that green tea, one of the most popular drinks around the world, may benefit bone health and the researchers suggest...

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The Politics of AIDS and Health Care Reform

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cdc, Obama, Hiv, Chicago, Prevention, Aids, Gay Issues, African-American Issues, Lgbt, Health Care, Chicago News
Johnathon Briggs

50 percent of all those living with HIV currently lack needed medical care. The impact of health reform on efforts to control the epidemic could be profound.

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