The dangerous rise of defensive medicine: How doctors give us invasive and risky tests we don’t need – because they are so terrified of being sued for negligence Doctors not only fear missing something vital for the sake of the patient but also fear being sued amid a tide of clinical negligence claims against NHS […]
Anyone paying attention to style trends has likely noticed that an accessory from yesteryear has returned with a vengeance: the choker necklace. If you were young in the early 1990s, you likely have fond memories of pairing a velvet choker with a plaid shirt or, a little later in the decade, perhaps it was a […]
It's something that women and people with female reproductive organs are told time and again by doctors: The vagina is self-cleaining—that's to say that, despite a myriad of products out there marketed to cleanse it, the vagina already does a great job of keeping itself clean via natural secretions and its own specific pH. And […]
(HealthDay)—A hand sanitizer has been recalled because it may contain methanol, a toxic chemical known as wood alcohol, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In addition, a mouthwash is being recalled because it may be tainted with bacteria that are particularly dangerous for people with COVID-19. Shane Erickson Inc. is recalling three brands […]
Importance of PTSD treatment among veterans and what we can do to help Mental Health Expert Dr. Ken Marfilius talks to Fox News to discuss PTSD among veterans and how COVID-19 has shown the importance of telehealth treatments. Dr. Marfilius is a visiting teaching professor in the School of Social Work at the Falk College […]
Cancer remodels the architecture of our chromosomes so the disease can take hold and spread, University of Virginia researchers have revealed. This remodeling is important because the arrangement of the components in our chromosomes actually affects the workings of our genes. With these renovations, cancer begins making a comfortable home for itself inside our cells. […]
For those of us who insist on seeing the glass half full, even when the miserable brigade point out that it’s also half empty, COVID-19 poses particular challenges. In regular times, our relentless optimism wins us friends and provides us with a host of benefits including higher levels of wellbeing, increased resilience and better health. […]
