by Sue Robbins | Sep 14, 2020 | Miscellaneous
How Flu Shots Can Help in the Fight Against Covid-19 Experts worry that the two diseases could overwhelm the health care system and create a new shortage of hospital beds and personal protective equipment. While we anxiously await the development and approval of a...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 10, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Researchers identify possible new therapy for concussion-related headaches As she jumped to head a soccer ball during her junior year of college, Kelly Farrell collided skulls with a teammate. She later was diagnosed with a concussion, which proved to be severely...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 9, 2020 | Wellness
A program of simple stretching exercises may help improve cardiovascular health. Italian researchers randomly assigned 39 volunteers to three groups. The first did a 12-week program, five 40-minute sessions a week, of bilateral leg, ankle and foot stretching. The...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 8, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Dentists Are Seeing an Epidemic of Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On? When I reopened my dental practice in early June, the tooth fractures started coming in: at least one a day, every single day that I’ve been in the office. “How’s your dental practice?” a friend of...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 8, 2020 | Miscellaneous
While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to take risks, a new study suggests. People who took acetaminophen rated activities like “bungee jumping off a tall bridge” and “speaking your mind...
