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Category: Health & Wellness

What You Need to Know About Your Thyroid

What You Need to Know About Your Thyroid

(Family Features) Michele Adams is quick to say, “I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus,” but it took her being hit by a car for her thyroid disease to finally be diagnosed. Adams has always been an active person, but for a few years, …
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Care giving and Covid-19

COVID-19 and Caregiver Burnout

(BPT) – COVID-19 has dramatically shifted daily life for many people around the world. Nobody is immune, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Older adults and individuals with chronic health conditions are at higher risk of getting very sick from the Coronavirus. Caregiver …
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Blood Pressure

Why Do We Develop High Blood Pressure?

You might wonder why you and anyone else develops high blood pressure – also known as hypertension. While you might develop it, you can easily lower or control it under a doctor’s care. The best way to prevent developing it is to keep a close eye …
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Men's Health Matters

Men’s Health Matters |Is Urolift a solution to BPH?

(Family Features) While family history and age cannot be changed, there are everyday steps men can follow to take charge of their health, including prostate health. Men need to learn that men’s health matters. Men can even prevent problems down the road. Consider these five tips …
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Sleep Apnea: Debunking Myths

Sleep Apnea: Debunking Myths

(BPT) – While many are familiar with the term, sleep apnea is commonly misunderstood — and largely undiagnosed. An estimated 54 million U.S. adults suffer from sleep apnea, although 80% may not know they have it and remain undiagnosed. In other words, millions of people have …
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Managing the cost of IBD

Managing the Cost of IBD

(Family Features) A diagnosis like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) means lifestyle changes throughout every aspect of life, including financially. Unfortunately, managing the cost of IBD involves many direct costs of care. Costs include clinic visits, radiology studies, procedures, and costly medications. There are also indirect costs …
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Sleep Deprivation

5 Tips to Fight Sleep Deprivation

37% of Americans report they have fallen asleep behind the wheel,
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Outpatient Procedure

6 Things You Should Know Before Your Next Outpatient Procedure

(BPT) Nearly 50 million outpatient surgeries performed in the U.S. each year with an increasingly complex nature of outpatient procedures. Patients need to know several important details when having surgery without an overnight stay in the hospital. Updated fasting restrictions, removing jewelry to reduce the risk …
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Treat your diabetes and protect your heart

Tackle Two at a Time: Treat Your Diabetes and Protect Your Heart

(BPT) – People living with diabetes are two times more likely to die from cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease, heart failure, heart attack, and stroke.i And, nearly 70 percent of people aged 65 or older with diabetes die from some form of heart disease.i Diabetes …
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Take the flu seriously

Take the flu seriously

(BPT) – Alice Vaught skipped her flu shot one season. That was the year she got the flu. “I felt like I was dying. Within a couple of hours I was unable to move. It came on so quickly, and I wasn’t aware of how severe …
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