Chances are, someone you know takes a sleeping pill. One in four Americans takes a sleep aid every year, according to the National Sleep Foundation, and the numbers are even higher for women -- one in three uses some sort of sleep medication a few times a

FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a new form of prion disease that doesn't act like related illnesses, such as mad cow disease, but instead causes brain damage similar to that produced by Alzheimer's disease.

FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- Freezing breast tumors helped stop the spread of the cancer in mice, a new study has found.   Researchers tested two cryoablation (freezing) techniques in mice with breast cancer. Both involve applying a cold probe to the tumor, but one method involves rapid freezing (about 30 seconds) of the tumor, while the other takes a ...

Get Online     You're lucky, in that cyberspace is pretty much ruled by new moms. A few years ago I attended a BlogHer conference, where approximately 80 percent of the blogs represented were mommy blogs. In fact, the BlogHer site is a good place to start if you want to know what other moms are experiencing and writing about. Other ...

Two legal cases dealing with the rights of family members to decide life or death for a critically injured loved one have touched off a storm of controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, landing one mother in prison for life, and locking a young couple in battle with the very doctors charged with keeping their infant alive.

ATLANTA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- After surgery, more than 90-percent of people are left with a scar you can't see from the outside. The internal marks, called adhesions, can be very painful, but there may be a solution to heal them from the inside out. No

Women do not recover their muscle strength as fast as men after wearing a cast, according to US researchers. Women are four times more likely than men to experience a broken forearm and require a cast. To examine whether the effects of casting were simil

Open Your Heart    Treat yourself to an uplifting movie, a poetry reading, an event, or an experience with others that opens your heart.   Let Good People and Places Abound   Turn your world into a happy and loving place by surrounding yourself with people and things you love.   Dream About the Life You Desire    Make a list ...

Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the state. Then after two deliveries the meals stopped because gas prices had made the delivery too expensive

Rein in Your Imagination     Many worriers are gifted with imaginations. Don’t use yours against yourself. Instead of doting on the worst case scenario, conjuring up negative images of doom and gloom, use your mind to form a positive picture. Visualize what’s good about the situation. Think about the best possible scenario or outcome instead

FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) -- The benefits of breast-feeding for infants are numerous and well-known, but researchers are finding more and more that breast-feeding can be a boon to mom's health as well. In fact, the latest study on the subject suggests that women who breast-feed have reduced amounts of abdominal fat, even decades later

She died of a broken heart. You scared me half to death! He was so mad he nearly gave himself a coronary. These clichés are far more than colorful expressions or old wives' tales. The idea that extreme acute stress or distress can have serious physi

Topic Overview Is this topic for you? Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of mental decline, or dementia. But dementia also has many other causes. For more information, see the topic Dementia.

For the first time in its 116-year history, Grady Memorial Hospital is issuing alerts to the Atlanta medical community that it can't take any more mentally ill patients. And yet the patients come. Atlanta's safety-net hospital has tried to divert m

ATLANTA – Months after experts discounted the importance of routine mammograms and Pap smears for many women, the American Cancer Society is warning more explicitly than ever that regular testing for prostate cancer is of questionable value too, and can do men more harm than good. The cancer society has not recommended routine screening for most men since the mid-1990s, and ...

Parenting.com When Melissa and Rudy Haberzettl's son Jacob was born in November 2006, he was perfect in every way -- full-term, healthy weight, and a champion eater. Like many new moms, Melissa wa

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama state employees suffering from obesity and three other health problems will eventually have to pay extra for their health insurance if they don't try to control their problems. The State Employees' Insurance Board has appr

President Obama caused more than a few comments earlier this week when he sat down to a satisfying Southern meal just a day or so after getting the news that his cholesterol was borderline high. But that little detail didn’t stop the president from piling on his plate some, er, hearty portions of fried chicken, baked beans, macaroni and cheese, mashed ...

Handing off patients between units presents many opportunities for miscommunication and errors. Even though The Joint Commission requires hospitals to implement a standardized approach to such communication, nurses at Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City,