Family physicians must balance treatment of patients with chronic pain against challenges faced by patients who have substance abuse issues. In both cases, patient privacy must be paramount to facilitate the free flow of information between patient and provider, the American Academy of Family Physicians recently told federal regulators. In a letter to Elinore McCance-Katz,… Read More »
Mars, planet of action and energy, has been rushing around upbeat, scatterbrained Gemini for the last six weeks. Socializing has been at the top of your priorities and you’ve been motivated by adding variety to your life, but your attention span has been completely MIA too! Thankfully, on May 15, Mars stop skittering around the… Read More »
December 13, 2018 Posted By Categories Jill U. Adams is a health journalist and an associate editor at HealthNewsReview.org. She tweets as @juadams. I read a lot of health news, as part of my daily search of eligible news stories for our team to review. So much so that I notice health claims in all kinds… Read More »
Media playback is unsupported on your device “Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine, wine before beer and you’ll feel queer” – many of us may swear by this time-honoured tip when “mixing” our drinks. But a new study has refuted the idea that the order we have alcoholic drinks in affects the severity of… Read More »
While it sometimes seems like mosquitoes swarm humans simply to make our lives miserable, they actually ruin our evening strolls and barbecues because they’re hungry. A female mosquito needs to slurp up a belly full of blood to produce her clutch of eggs and her hunger hormones drive her to seek out bare arms and… Read More »