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MENTAL

Is Your Bedroom Dark Enough?

Many of us struggle to get the optimal nightly seven to nine hours of sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society recommends that adults (ages 18 to 60) sleep seven or more hours regularly for optimal sleep health.

ENVIRON

Forever Chemicals and Microplastics in Water More Dangerous to Health Than Thought

The chemicals are everywhere, but their danger is now more severe than previously thought and presents an explicit threat to health.

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UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Midurethral Sling

A mid-urethral sling is the most common type of surgery used to correct stress urinary incontinence or a leaky bladder. A small, supportive material of synthetic mesh is placed under the urethra to give support.

DISEASES

Triglycerides and Their Influence on Your Heart Health

High blood triglycerides are high blood levels of a type of fat, or lipid, called triglycerides. Your body makes triglycerides or gets them from the foods you eat.

Food Is the Prescription, and Food Pharmacies Could Be the Way to Better Health

Each mouthful of food may enhance and protect your health or damage it, and we now view food as a pharmaceutical.

Dyshidrotic Eczema, a type of Eczema

This common form of eczema called Dyshidrotic Eczema causes small, intensely itchy blisters on the edges of the fingers, toes, palms

Paid Sick Leave Sticks After Many Pandemic Protections Vanish

In a nation that was sharply divided about government health mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public has been warming to the idea of government rules providing for paid sick leave.

HEALTHY MINDS

SAFETY

How My Breast Cancer Providers Have Compromised My Life

Being poor can get you killed. A damning indictment of breast cancer Providers from a Medicaid survivor of a double mastectomy.

CARDIO

This 5-Minute Habit Could Help Prevent a Dangerous Heart Condition.

At 7:28 a.m., the sidewalk was still damp from last night’s Seattle area rain. I stepped outside, tea still warming my throat, and began walking...

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Robert F Kennedy Jnr Appropriates Racism and Apartheid To Fuel Vaccine Fear

Robert F Kennedy Jnr's latest movie, Medical Racism, the New Apartheid is pure appropriation of racism and culture to fuel his aniti-vaccine campaign