Parents of teens know first-hand they don’t always have the best sleep habits, making some mornings a nightmare. Sleep deprivation may also have an additional impact on kids with ADHD.
When our kids grow up, if they want to land a robot on Mars or cure a deadly disease, they’ll need strong science skills, and that learning starts early. Coming up, simple ways parents can support science learning at home.
Each year, more than 18,000 people, in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses where a bone marrow transplant is their best treatment option.
Each year, more than 18,000 people, in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses where a bone marrow transplant is their best treatment option.
Plant-based burgers, CBD and low-calorie alcohols made big splashes in 2020, but what are the newest foods and fads making headlines and impacting waistlines?
About 300,000 Americans get their appendix removed each year due to illness. But a new study reveals there may be an alternative to going under the knife.
Mantle cell lymphoma is a rare, aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It’s usually caught at late stages and until very recently, there were very few effective treatments. Now, researchers have found a specialized CAR T-cell therapy that is making a life-saving difference.
Steroids, they’ve commonly been used and abused throughout sports and fitness because of their instant and energizing effects. But now another kind of steroid, corticosteroids, used for organ transplant acceptance and autoimmune conditions, may be getting dangerously overprescribed.
Our indulgences can have long-term effects on our health, namely our liver. If we’re not aware, the warning signs can be too subtle to detect until it’s too late.
March is national Caffeine Awareness Month. Even though most soda doesn’t have as much caffeine as coffee or some tea, this caffeinated, carbonated beverage can have serious health effects.
We’ve all heard that eating right, exercising and getting enough sleep are important for good health, but other lifestyle behaviors can affect your well-being too!
For the first time ever, neuroscientists at UCLA are measuring human brain waves while a person is in motion. They’re observing epilepsy patients with previously implanted brain sensors.
Ultrasound is an important medical tool that uses sound waves to produce images of structures inside the body, like a developing baby. But doctors also rely on ultrasound to see organs, muscles, or blood vessels.
A survey by Consumer Reports finds nearly 70 percent of Americans struggle with falling asleep at least once a week. There could be various reasons why people have a hard time sleeping. Ivanhoe has details on some sleep disorders and what you can do about them.
About 15 percent of all women diagnosed with breast cancer have triple-negative breast cancer, meaning drugs that target estrogen, progesterone, and HER-2 protein—won’t work. In the past, if the cancer returned, patients have had very few options. More on a newly approved drug that is stopping the c
Jumping, stepping, pushing yourself past your limits, working out certainly sets you on the path to stronger muscles, but it’s the recovery that determines results.
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to use newly FDA approved ablation technology that delivers 150-watts of microwave energy with a single needle.
For about half of all people with epilepsy, medication controls the seizures … but for others, once medication fails, brain surgery becomes the best option. Now, for the first time in the U.S., an epilepsy expert and a team of skull base surgeons have developed a new approach.
Hustle culture, workaholic, toxic productivity, do you have an unhealthy obsession with being productive? A list of tasks that never ends and is never enough? The recent surge of hustle culture has many people romanticizing over-working and subsequently burning out.
Worldwide, about 50 million people have dementia, a condition that’s characterized by a decline in memory, thinking, behavior, and the ability to perform everyday tasks.
If stomach acid flows up into the esophagus, it can create all kinds of tissue damage. About 60 percent of Americans experience these reflux issues once in a while.
It’s a crisis hidden in plain sight, about 20 percent of people in the United States cannot read at all and 50 percent of adults can’t read past an eighth-grade level.
Almost 800,000 people suffer a stroke each year. More than 250,000 people are living with a spinal cord injury. Almost as many people will be diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury in 2021.
More than five million Americans live with dementia, which is an umbrella term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that interfere with daily life.
A study at Seattle Children’s Research Institute highlighted that 46 percent of mothers are deficient in Vitamin D during pregnancy, which can lead to abnormal bone growth, fractures, or rickets in newborns.
Researchers credit regular exercise with preventing a number of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, dementia, depression, anxiety, and even cancer.
In the U.S., about one in five adults is currently providing unpaid health or supportive care to someone they love. It takes patience, time, and energy to be a caregiver and it isn’t always easy.
Age is one of the biggest risk factors for cancer. In fact, nine out of ten cancer cases are diagnosed in people over the age of 45 and seniors older than 74 make up more than a quarter of cancer cases.
February, the time we all draw our attention to love and more importantly our hearts. February is heart health month and there are currently more than 26 million people affected by heart failure.
Here’s a sobering statistic to think about this heart month– every 40 seconds in the United States, someone has a heart attack. One of the most serious complications is a condition called cardiogenic shock where the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs.
Fifty-four million Americans suffer from arthritis. It is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. Treatments used to control arthritis may have side effects that are worse than the condition itself.
For months, health experts have cautioned that obese patients are more likely to be hospitalized and need mechanical ventilation if they contract COVID-19.
People with type one diabetes are at risk for hypoglycemia, a dangerous drop in blood sugar that can cause confusion, seizures, or loss of consciousness.
The COVID-19 vaccine is rolling out across the country, but medical experts say this is not the time to let our guards down. As of January, there have been over 25 million cases and 433,000 deaths in the U.S. alone.
Three-hundred thousand Americans die each year from congestive heart failure. Three-thousand patients will have access to a donor heart in the U.S., which means that only one percent of the people that need a heart get it in time.
Videoconferencing platforms including the popular “Zoom” have taken over the corporate world. While they’ve allowed co-workers to safely communicate during a pandemic, there can be some downsides.
Some studies suggest that up to 20 percent of the world’s population may have some type of food intolerance. The most common—dairy, gluten, and surprisingly—caffeine. Could a certain food be to blame for your symptoms?
The death of George Floyd in May of last year led to months of protest over systemic racism in the United States. For many parents, race, class, and social identity are tough topics to address with young kids.
Worldwide, about six out of every ten children and adolescents are not meeting minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. How do our kids stack up?
More than six million Americans are suffering from heart failure right now. It happens when the heart can’t pump enough blood and oxygen to other parts of the body.
Three seconds. That’s the time it takes for someone to know whether they find you attractive. But is that smile they’re giving you a flirty one or a let’s be friends one?
When you think of heart problems you usually think of older men and women. But 40,000 children are born each year with congenital heart defects… everything from a hole in their heart to faulty valves.
