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Train Your Brain
Your body needs exercise to stay healthy, and so does your brain. Some research shows that when you exercise your mind, your brain creates new connections between brain cells. This helps keep your brain healthy and working at its best. It may also help prevent cognitive decline and memory loss. A great way to challenge your brain—and have fun—is by playing memory games. These games help your brain practice storing and retrieving information. So when it’s tested with a real-world task (like...
Metabolic Syndrome: What's Your Risk?
Learn about the risk factors for this serious health condition and how to discuss your personal risk with your doctor Metabolic syndrome is a combination of health-related risk factors that, when they occur together, increase your risk for cardiovascular disease. The more of these risk factors you have, the higher your chances of developing serious health issues such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a person who has metabolic...
Living With Hemophilia
There are currently around 20,000 males in the United States who are living with hemophilia. (Women, who are genetic carriers of the disease, very rarely experience any of the condition’s symptoms.) "Hemophilia comes in several shades of gray, and not everyone who has the condition will be affected in the same way,” says Bartholomew J. Tortella, MD, Medical Director on Pfizer’s Hemophilia team. That said, most boys and men with hemophilia, and those caring for them, will face similar...
Diabetes: Controlar el azúcar en la sangre
Descargue la herramienta de control de la diabetes Controlar el azúcar en la sangre es importante para manejar su diabetes. Puede tomar medidas que pueden ayudarle a hacer cambios pequeños para alcanzar sus números de control de azúcar en la sangre. Obtener control comienza cuando empieza a observar su peso y tomar sus medicamentos según lo prescrito, pero hay otras cosas que puede hacer que también le ayudarán. Estas pueden incluir: Ponerse activo y hacer ejercicio la mayoría de los días...
Tips to Eating Well
Download the Tips to Eating Well Checklist PDF The foods you eat can affect your health, so it’s important to make smart food choices. Healthy eating will help you control: Weight Blood pressure Blood sugar (if you have diabetes)
Is it Sore Joints—or RA?
We often think of arthritis as general joint pain or loss of mobility that comes along as we get older. Arthritis is an umbrella term for more than 100 different diseases and can impact young people as well as old. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common types. Read on to learn more. What is RA? RA is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease that can be painful and disabling. An estimated 1.5 million people in the United States have RA, and nearly three times as many women as men...
Finding Quality Health Information Online
The Internet puts a large amount of health and wellness information at your fingertips. But if that information is outdated, incorrect or downright dangerous, it could cause more harm than good. So which websites should you trust? Follow these basic rules for evaluating health information websites and start feeling better about finding health information online: 1. Know who sponsors the site. If the website doesn’t disclose who sponsors the site, ignore it. Most credible sites — like those...
Breast Self-Exams: Should You Do Them?
For many years, we women were told to examine our breasts at least monthly to check for signs of breast cancer. In medical school, my fellow students and I learned how to teach our patients to examine their breasts. It’s a multi-step process that takes several minutes – checking your breasts in the shower, in the mirror, lying on your back (maybe you’ve seen diagram-heavy brochures -- still a staple in many college and community health centers). But in recent years, some medical organizations...
Taking Prescription Pain Medicine Safely
Prescription opioid pain medications such as oxycodone and codeine are some of the most commonly abused prescription drugs. And there has certainly been a lot of talk in the media about the very real problem of pain medicine addiction. Unfortunately, all of that news coverage can sometimes overshadow the fact that these medicines are important tools in treating pain. For many people, opioid medicines—which work by reducing pain signals that are sent to your brain—can be extremely helpful...
Sickle Cell Trait vs. Sickle Cell Disease
Millions of people worldwide are affected by the sickle cell blood disorder. About 100,000 people in the U.S. have sickle cell disease. It mostly affects African Americans, but it can also affect people from Hispanic, southern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Indian backgrounds. Another 2.5 million people in the U.S. have sickle cell trait (SCT). But having sickle cell trait (SCT) is not the same as having sickle cell disease (SCD). What is the difference between having sickle cell trait...
It’s a Match! Telemedicine and a Healthier You
My parents, born in pre-war Hungary and Poland, were introduced in New York through a matchmaker. That was the custom of the times. They had a happy marriage despite the reality that the matchmaker gave incomplete and sometimes incorrect information to them and to their respective families. Their union blossomed because they used what the matchmaker provided as a starting point for deeper discussions on what mattered to them. The matchmaker's information was only the first stage in finding...
Hemophilia Q&A
Q: What is hemophilia? A: Hemophilia is a blood disorder that primarily affects males. People who have hemophilia tend to bleed for longer periods of time following an injury or surgery. This happens because they have little, or even none, of a protein called clotting factor. Clotting factors help your blood form clots, which play an important role in stopping bleeding. There are many of these clotting factors in the body that are needed for the blood to clot properly. People...
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