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Childbirth Fears and Long Labors

The discovery that you're carrying a child inside you brings along a range of emotions. For about 5 to 20 percent of women, those emotions include a fear of childbirth.

Future Job Troubles for Arthritic Kids

For some patients, the pain of arthritis gets in the way of their job. If that's the case, children with arthritis may be faced with limited job opportunities as they get older.

How Elastic is Your Liver?

You probably don't think about the elasticity of your organs. But when it comes to the liver, the lack of elasticity is an important measure of health.

How Effective is Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

In contrast to fancy intellectual European talk-therapy like psychoanalysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) has a practical, fairly straightforward, All-American flavor. What are your problems? How do your thoughts affect your actions? Can you act more effectively by noticing how your thinking is related to your behavior and vice versa? CBT might help you, but the only way to find out is to try it. CBT is among the most common-sense, easy to understand types of therapy in widespread use. No knowledge of biology or physiology is required to understand it. It's helpfulness does not ...

A Timeline for Alzheimer’s Disease?

Recent research found that changes in the brain and body may begin years before symptoms of Alzheimer’s di sease (AD) begin.

Heart Drug Doesn't Cut Bypass Complications

An experimental medication designed to protect the heart from injury during coronary artery bypass surgery does not appear to reduce serious complications including stroke or dying.

Try Cow Face…For Your Mental Health

Rabbit, Crane, Frog, Cobra, Eagle, One-Legged King Pigeon, Crow, Tortoise, Peacock, Locust, Camel, Scorpion… Okay, so it sounds like the zoo. But it's good for your mind and muscles.

Getting a Goldilocks Dose of Iron

Pregnant women need sufficient amounts of iron, which is included in most prenatal vitamins. But like many supplements, taking too much iron can have negative side effects.

The Cancer Chicken Dance

Do you know the chicken dance? Make a beak with your hands and quake them four times, fold your arms into wings and flap them as you jut your head out while pecking and wiggle downward shaking your tail feathers.

Shingles Vaccine Safe for More Patients

People taking immunity-suppressing drugs are currently advised against the live-virus shingles vaccine because there is concern that it could lead to shingles, for this population.

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