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Multidrug resistance bacteria pose a serious global threat to human health. Globally, 700,000 people die every year due to antimicrobial resistance.((Queen's University Belfast. "Killer superbugs: Is the answer within our bodies' natural defenses?" ScienceDaily....
Economy will shrink sometimes. There is one investment that we can control, to a large extent, and one that we can’t afford to neglect! How you manage your muscles now might affect your future more than you realize. Because muscle strength is directly associated with...
How can optimism improve our health? Is all optimism helpful? How can you build optimism when so many of your hopes have been decimated? What is better than optimism? Dispositional optimism is the personality trait that believes in positive outcomes and good things...
Could listening to natural sounds and music improve your health? How about playing musical instruments? Do they offer benefits? Is all music beneficial for healing? We cover some of the latest research in this blog. Group Singing Improves Mental Health Even for...
Uterine fibroids (leiomyoma) are usually benign tumors that are in the smooth muscle tissue of the uterus (womb). Overall, these tumors are fairly common and occur in about 50% to 80% of women by the time they reach age 50. Uterine fibroids (UF) can be as small as a...
The average age of onset for rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) is between 30 to 60 years of age. What is worse is that children can develop RA. About 1.3 million adults in the U.S. have rheumatoid arthritis. Women are three times more likely to get it than men. Like so many...
Regarding lab testing for atherosclerosis or heart disease, it is not wise to only gauge one's risk based on LDL and HDL cholesterol numbers. The particle size of LDL cholesterol counts too. Small dense LDLs are the most atherogenic. Higher numbers for HDL are...
Persistent inflammation fuels most chronic diseases and is a major player in the complications of viral illnesses. If you have a chronic disease–arthritis, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, or chronic major depression, these science-validated...
So how can we reduce stress? Identify the stressors we can change! A stressor, among other definitions, is a violation of any law that governs our beings. So, in this article, we will consider physical laws that we often overlook. If we want less stress and superior...
Adjust Your Perspective At a women's conference, prime front seats were erroneously double-ticketed. Many of the ladies who had previously arranged for front seats were delegated to the back. Their unhappiness with the seating arrangements threatened to derail the...