by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2018 | General News, Health
Cognitive functioning — an individual’s ability to think and to learn — has multiple components. Cognition involves reasoning, memory, attention, language, and more. The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) established the Healthy Brain...
by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2018 | General News, Health
Compliance, adherence, or just plain remembering. However we label it, taking medication on schedule can be a chore, especially when you have multiple prescriptions. Absent our own Nurse Ratched to enforce medication schedules, it can be easy to lose track of what...
by Bruce Brown | July 9, 2018 | General News, Medical
Statistics regarding the prevalence of depression in the U.S. are hardly uplifting. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), one in six adults in the U.S. will have depression at some time in their lives. In any given year, approximately 16...
by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
Most people just want to get a good night’s sleep, but that’s not always easy. Snoring can disturb the slumber of both the individual who snores and anyone who shares the same sleeping space. The Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study found that nearly one in four...
by Alfred Poor | June 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
According to the Centers for Disease Control, opioid overdoses resulted in more than 64,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2016. This national health crisis was the motivation behind the “Opioid Challenge” launched by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This...