Alcohol

5 Simple Steps to Firmer Skin

Skin can lose elasticity for several reasons, and it's not always a simple case of aging. Weight loss, sun exposure, poor diet and unhealthy habits such as smoking or abusing...
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5 Noteworthy Signs You Are Addicted To Technology

1 day ago | HealthWorks Collective

We are tied to the smartphone and the tablet each day. Without them we would be lost, unable to share posts with friends, give likes to photos and upload our latest lunch...
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Couples should change their lifestyle up to two years before trying for a baby

2 days ago | Daily Mail

Three months is typically advised but this is now considered not long enough. Couples should consider cutting down on alcohol and starting taking multivitamins.
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Being Called ‘Ma'am' And Other Heinous Changes That Happen In Your 30s

2 days ago | Scary Mommy

Last night, I was tucking the girls in and my four-year-old reached up and touched my face. “You are young,” she said, “but you do have those lines by your eyes.” This is my...
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Screen for fatty liver as a diabetes complication

2 days ago | Healio | 2 articles

Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease - and its more severe stage, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, in particular - is increasing in developed countries. The...
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America's new cancer: History repeats itself

2 days ago | Healio

Long after Doll and Bradford Hill convincingly showed that lung cancer is caused by cigarette smoking, the denizens of the tobacco industry established campaigns of...
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Heavy Drinking and HIV Don't Mix: Study

3 days ago | Medindia Health

People who reported drinking more alcohol or had high PEth had higher levels of these biomarkers of immune function, stated new study.
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Heavy drinking and HIV don't mix, study finds

3 days ago | ScienceDaily

A new study finds that heavy alcohol consumption (three drinks or more/day for women and four drinks or more/day for men) is linked to alterations in immune function among...
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Alcohol and Metronidazole Interaction: Real or Fake?

4 days ago | Medscape

Your patient is taking metronidazole, but he's also going to be in a wedding in 3 days. How would you advise him? Medscape Internal Medicine
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Refreshing Kombucha Cocktails and Mocktails

4 days ago | Fit Bottomed Girls

Looking for simple ways to reduce your alcohol consumption (without feeling like you're missing out on tasty beverages and opportunities to socialize)? Today's guest post from...
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Teens are Addicted to a Highly Potent Form of Marijuana

Marijuana addiction: More teens use a highly potent form of marijuana known as marijuana concentrate, reveals a new study. Read more ...

8 Trainer-Recommended Isometric Ab Exercises to Light Up and Completely...

You do isometric ab exercises more often than you might realize, so these eight core-shaking examples will probably look pretty familiar. Isometric exercises are moves that... Read more ...

Passive Presence of a Romantic Partner can Help You Overcome Pain

Are you single? Do single people suffer more pain? A new study highlights that even passive presence of a romantic partner can reduce pain. Read more ...

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS

Editor's note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here... Read more ...

Scotland reports rise of E. coli infections in 2018

The number of E. coli infections recorded in Scotland increased in 2018, according to a report on surveillance data from the country. Cases of E. coli O157 decreased while... Read more ...

Assorted dried fruit recalled for undeclared sulfites

Krasnyi Oktyabr USA Inc. of Brooklyn, New York, is r ecalling its 500-gram packages of “Tainy Vostoka Assorted Dried Fruits - Apple” and “Tainy Vostoka Assorted Dried Fruits... Read more ...

Physicians Fear Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Changes may Distress or...

Few physicians do not encourage cancer survivors enough to adopt healthy lifestyles as they fear that providing such advice would distress or overwhelm patients, reports a new... Read more ...

Spending Too Much Time on Your Phone Not So Bad for Mental Health

Are smartphones bad for mental health? Not so bad, says a new study. The key is to find the right balance. TV, Internet, online games, social media - all needs to be used in... Read more ...

Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood Visitors Reportedly Exposed to Measles

A New Zealand teenager who visited Disneyland and other Southern California tourist spots last week brought along more than just her luggage. She brought measles. Public health... Read more ...

Oxygen loss in ancient oceans led to mass extinctions - will history repeat...

The ongoing drop in ocean oxygen levels is not a new thing. Researchers warn that a similar loss of life-giving gas in the ancient oceans may have triggered a mass extinction... Read more ...