7 Great Things About Birth Control
When used correctly, birth control is a reliable source to protect you against unplanned pregnancies. But did you also know that birth control has a lot of other amazing social and lifestyle perks fo...
Author Archives: Katherine Flores
Taking Your Blood Pressure Medication
When patients with high blood pressure fail to take their blood pressure medication as directed it puts them at an even greater risk of having a stroke and having fatal consequences.
Sleep Deprivation Leads To Cravings
After performing a study, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that sleep deprivation makes high-calories foods significantly more desirable. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the res...
New Anxiety Study Reveals New Information
In this anxiety study, researchers aimed at verifying if an exposure to stress very early during development could also lead to increased consumption of comfort food in adult life, and if increased a...
Obese Male Fertility
1 in 3 Americans is obese, this not only effects health but for men it can also have an affect on male fertility.
Anemia Drug Recall
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Affymax Inc. have voluntarily announced an anemia drug recall for the Omontys (peginesatide) injection, a drug used for anemia treatment in kidney dialysis patients, bec...
Antipsychotics Don’t Help PTSD Treatment
It seems that risperdal, an antipsychotic medication commonly prescribed for PTSD treatment to veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, does not help alleviate symptoms of PTSD, accordin...
Breast Cancer Survival Predictor
Scientists in Columbia University have developed a new model to predict breast cancer survival, they said that their work could lead to improved diagnosis and prognosis for all types of cancer.
Unnecessary Heart Tests
An echocardiogram is a heart test that many patients get, but actually don’t need according to researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Belly-Flop Injuries
Although belly-flop injuries rarely occur, when they do they can harm your body.