by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2018 | Fitness, General News, Health
Patient noncompliance with prescribed medication or recommended health plans threatens recovery and health improvement programs all too often. According to a Johns Hopkins University study of adherence and health care costs, between 25% and 50% of patients do not...
by Alfred Poor | March 15, 2018 | General News, Health
Stroke victims and patients with spinal injuries often have to learn how to walk all over again. Their muscles may not be strong enough to let them move about, and the brain/body connection may have been disrupted so that normal walking behavior is not possible. A lot...
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by Bruce Brown | March 12, 2018 | General News, Health
A cancer diagnosis is bad enough, but it often kicks off high stress levels that significantly diminish a patient’s quality of life. A 2014 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found nearly 32% of patients newly diagnosed with cancer developed...
by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2018 | General News, Health
New parents often stress over their baby’s breathing and heartbeat. The stress eases in a few weeks or months for most parents, but the concern lingers, often for the first year or two. We’ve written about a variety of new baby monitoring tech,...
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by Bruce Brown | March 1, 2018 | General News, Health
The Baby Boomer population bubble following World War II lasted for 18 years of optimism from 1946 to 1964. The first Boomers turned 65 in 2011. The youngest cohort will cross the senior citizen threshold in 2029. This immense group of 75+ million individuals, raised...
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by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2018 | General News, Health
Amblyopia, commonly known as “lazy eye,” refers to the inability of one or both eyes to work correctly with the brain. In typical cases, the brain — for whatever reason — favors the other eye. The most common childhood visual impairment,...
