Category: Lifestyle

Your back muscles are involved in almost every major and minor thing you do throughout the day, whether it is pulling a door, lifting things or bending or squatting down. Your back supports your torso and posture even while you are just sitting in a chair. Weaker back muscles not only affect posture but they […]

Keelee Moseley knew something wasn’t right. After an emergency cesarean section in February 2018, the Texas mom was in so much pain she couldn’t walk. She told doctors she wasn’t feeling well. Still, hospital staff sent her home. In the following days, she only felt worse. Her heart rate rose, she nursed a fever and […]

For the first-line treatment of microsatellite-instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch-repair-deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer, pembrolizumab is superior to chemotherapy for prolonging progression-free survival, according to a study published in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Thierry André, M.D., from Sorbonne Université and Hôpital Saint Antoine in Paris, and colleagues conducted a […]

Wandering and becoming lost is common among people with Alzheimer’s disease or other disorders causing dementia. This behavior can happen in the early stages of dementia—even if the person has never wandered in the past. If a person with dementia is returning from regular walks or drives later than usual or is forgetting how to […]

The U.S. National Institutes of Health has updated guidelines for treating asthma. The update is the first in 13 years and takes into account new medications and other advances in asthma care. It focuses on treatment tailored for different age groups and severity of disease. But better asthma care won’t come from new guidelines alone, […]

A person’s genetic make-up can influence whether they might experience side effects from certain medications. Some laboratories now offer pharmacogenetic tests that allow patients to learn whether they carry genetic variants known to be associated with adverse drug effects. Such tests might help patients and their doctors choose safer, more effective treatments, but the U.S. […]

In a new study that could turn what we know about birth order upside down, a University of Houston researcher has found that the role of birth order on career types, occupational creativity and status attainment might have been overestimated in previous research. The only finding that replicated previous research was a small effect of […]