Archive for June, 2015

A recent study with eighty five participant’s show that the brains of some people have greater connectivity in some regions, and those people are more likely to be successful at smoking cessation attempts.

Walking can reduce Sickness

There are many health benefits to be had from including daily exercise into your routine. A large number of people, about 30% of Americans, choose walking as their preferred form of exercise.

People who have Hodgkin Lymphoma have an increased risk of developing a cardiovascular disease when they are older.

The Study of Hodgkin Lymphoma

Researchers compiled data by following two thousand five hundred and twenty four patients who had survived Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Exercise after Heart Attack

Survivors of heart attacks are recommended, and encouraged to get on a regular exercise regimen as soon as possible. The exercise most frequently recommended by cardiologist is walking. The benefits of that exercise is that the heart muscle will gain in strength and the person will regain their endurance abilities.

Researchers say that in only fourteen days your consumption of sugary beverages that contain high levels of fructose corn syrup you can increase your risks for cardiovascular disease.

A study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine’s April 30^th issue states that improving the knowledge about prenatal care, and engaging hospitals in a review of the number of caesarean section births that were performed, greatly improved the health of the mothers and the babies.

Knowing that four out of every ten Americans live in a location where the air they breathe is polluted is scary, but believe this or not, these statistics are lower than they have been at times in the past.

Many patients say that they do not feel the same connection to their doctors that their parents, and their grandparents, felt with their physicians. The biggest reason stated for the change in attitude towards physicians is the age of technology.

Physical activity is touted as being the number one cure for obesity in children, but when a group of impoverished children from Quebec were studied the results revealed that children living in poverty are at a greater risk of becoming obese, even though they have a higher level of physical activity.

The majority of heart surgeries performed on children less than 2 years of age use blood components instead of whole blood. Whole blood is now being recommended rather than these components by researchers from the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.