The Checkup Archive: General Health
Women more stressed by work intrusions
Between our Blackberries, iPhones and laptops, we all know the line between work and home life has gotten pretty blurred. But are those intrusions by work into our supposed downtime bad for us? A new study suggests it is, particularly for women.Paul Glavin of the University of Toronto and colleagues...
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Rob Stein
| March 9, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Family Health, General Health, Psychology, Women's Health
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Wake up! It's sleep awareness week.
New data released by the CDC to coincide with National Sleep Awareness Week -- which begins today -- paint a less-than-ideal picture of Americans' relationship with sleep. More than 35 percent of nearly 74,571 people surveyed in 2009 reported getting less than 7 hours' sleep a night. (We're supposed to get 7 to 9 hours of sleep daily; children need 10 or 11 hours.) Almost 38 percent admitted to having unintentionally dozed off during the daytime during the 30 days before the survey. Worse yet: Nearly 5 percent of those surveyed had done so while driving.
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Jennifer Huget
| March 7, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Cardiovascular Health, Chronic Conditions, Family Health, General Health, Sleep, Stress
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Study finds exercise is actually good for your knees
If you've been using the fear of knee damage as an excuse to avoid exercise, it may be time to find a new excuse.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| March 1, 2011; 12:54 PM ET |
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Arthritis, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, General Health
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Is that right? Shoveling snow boosts heart-attack risk
Snow shoveling (and other activities such as pushing cars and operating snowblowers) is the perfect setup for heart attack (when blood flow to a section of heart muscle becomes blocked) and sudden cardiac death (in which the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating).
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 4, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Cardiovascular Health, General Health, Snowmageddon
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New federal dietary guidelines released
Federal officials Monday released the government's latest advice to Americans on what they should be eating, including specific new recommendations to limit salt intake. The departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services jointly issued the first updated version of the federal government's official Dietary Guidelines for Americans in five...
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Rob Stein
| January 31, 2011; 10:00 AM ET |
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Dietary Guidelines, Family Health, General Health, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, School Nutrition
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Studies show that for kids' ear infections, antibiotics work better than waiting
Being a parent these days sometimes entails this hypocrisy: Yes, I know overuse of antibiotics is creating superbugs that may soon conquer the universe. But please give some to my kid anyway. Now two new studies (bolstered by an accompanying editorial) in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrate what we parents have suspected for years: When it comes to ear infections, antibiotics are in order.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 12, 2011; 5:00 PM ET |
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Antibiotics, Family Health, General Health, Infant health, Kids' health, Motherhood
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