Healthy Lifestyles for Kids
By Marina Ramirez, M.D.
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Many children today are moving too little or eating too much. The result: The number of overweight children has doubled in the past 30 years.
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Tackle Kitchen Spring Cleaning and Reduce Your Risk of Food Poisoning
Spring is now upon us, welcoming flowers, warmer weather and of course spring cleaning. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics along with ConAgra Foods encourages Americans to give their kitchens ...
Make the Effort to Prevent Heart Disease With Life’s Simple 7
By Shelly Millwee Director of Communications AHA
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More than one in three adults has some form of cardiovascular disease. The good news is 80 percent of heart disease and stroke ...
Louisiana Veteran Becomes 50th Liver Transplant Recipient at DeBakey VA
A little over two weeks after surgery, U.S. Air Force Veteran Ronald Chustz, the 50th liver transplant patient at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, poses with (from ...
Majority of childhood illness flu can be managed at home
A vast majority of children with the flu have illness that can be managed at home, said a pediatric emergency medicine physician from Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu).
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Prescription Medication Abuse and Addiction
By: Katie McQueen, MD
La Hacienda
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Prescription drug misuse and dependence is on the rise. In the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdoses ...
Fighting professional burnout: seven ways to take control
By Michael Groat
Ph.D. Menninger Clinic
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The challenge of providing ethical, compassionate, and patient-centered care can be strenuous. High patient volume, continuous patient contact, complex medical needs, decreased ...
Tobacco-free electronic cigarettes remain under study
What’s the primary difference between electronic cigarettes – a relatively new invention that first surfaced commercially in 2004 – and their age-old, combustible predecessors?
So-called “e-cigs” don’t contain tobacco.
Instead, an ...
