Turning Off the Tension

Jenna Wortham, a writer for the New York Times recently related a personal story that caused her to become unnerved, but also provided insight into her relationship with her cellphone. She and a friend had planned a lazy day hanging out at the nearby public pool. Soon...

Study Looks at Memory Decline and Berries

A large, twenty year study conducted in Boston provides new support for the belief that flavonoid-rich berries can delay memory decline in older people.  “Among women who consumed two or more servings of strawberries and blueberries each week we saw a modest...

Visual Snow

Christoph Schankin, MD, a fellow in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Headache Center recently discussed visual snow at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society. Sometimes patients with visual snow are...

Less Strokes/Low-Fat Dairy Connection

If you enjoy daily servings of yogurt or cheese for bone health you may be getting an extra benefit according to a large Swedish study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute studied nearly 75,000 men and women for ten years. They found that those people eating the...

Study Links Dental Health to Dementia Risk

Almost 5,500 elderly people were followed over an 18-year-period by researchers at the University of California. Those patients who brushed their teeth less than once a day were up to 65% more likely to develop dementia than those patients who brushed their teeth...

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