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A family's mental health journey: Emergency, illness, recovery, stability

21 Mar 2016 • 5 comments

In March 2010, Pam Lipp received the call she'd been dreading for months. She figured it would come from one of three places: the police, the hospital or the morgue. Instead, it was her husband,...

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COPD

Exercise May Extend Lives of People With COPD

21 Mar 2016 • 2 comments

Regular exercise could help boost the survival of people who've left the hospital after battling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study finds. "We know that physical activity...

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Asthma

Is it OK to exercise outside when the air is bad?

21 Mar 2016

For people in most of the country, spring offers a cruel dilemma. The weather is gorgeous and you want to get outside to walk, run or ride your bike. But the air is bursting with pollen, which can...

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Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis Linked To Serotonin Deficiency

17 Mar 2016 • 1 comment

For the first time, researchers have directly implicated serotonin in the paraphysiology of rheumatoid arthritis. Serotonin is mostly known as a neurotransmitter, but this shows that it has other...

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Want a younger brain? Stay in school -- and take the stairs

14 Mar 2016 • 2 comments

Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain's health too -- and that education also has a positive effect....

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Multiple sclerosis

What Are the 4 Types of Multiple Sclerosis?

10 Mar 2016

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease where the body destroys the myelin sheath surrounding the nerves of the spine and brain. Myelin is a fatty covering that protects nerves and permits proper...

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Multiple sclerosis

Video Games May Improve Brain Function In Multiple Sclerosis Patients: Study

8 Mar 2016

Playing "brain-training" video games may help improve some cognitive abilities of people with multiple sclerosis by strengthening neural connections in an important part of their brains, a new study...

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Multiple sclerosis

Coffee may help combat Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

7 Mar 2016

Excessive intake of coffee is likely to reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) — an autoimmune condition affecting the nerve cells — finds a study. The findings — which add to the growing...

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Arthritis

Psoriasis Treatment: Natural Therapies Work The Best And Worst

7 Mar 2016

One of the bad things associated with psoriasis treatment available today is that they are time and money intensive. It is hard for people living with this lifelong condition to manage the symptoms...

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Arthritis

Natural Psoriasis Treatments: Which Alternative Therapies Do And Don't Work

1 Mar 2016 • 2 comments

Psoriasis is a lifelong condition characterized by the rapid buildup of cells on the skin’s surface, which appear as thick, silvery scales, and painful, itchy red patches. The condition affects...

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Ankylosing spondylitis

New Ankylosing Spondylitis Treatment Guidelines

1 Mar 2016

Experts at the National Institutes of Health conducted systematic reviews of the literature to address 57 clinical questions related to the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) or...

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Adams-Stokes syndrome
Aneurysm
Angina pectoris
Angio-osteohypertrophic syndrome
Angioedema
Aortic arch interruption
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Arrhythmias
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
Arterial hypertension
Arteriovenous malformation
Atherosclerosis
Atrial fibrillation
Attention deficit disorder with or without hyperactivity
Atypical coarctation of aorta
Brugada syndrome
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Buerger disease
CADASIL syndrome
Cardiac syndrome X
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular syncope
Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
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Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency
Complete atrioventricular canal
Congenital heart disease
Congenital pulmonary valve stenosis
Congestive heart failure
Coronary heart disease
Criss-cross heart
Dependent personality disorder
Disorders of the heart valves
Ebstein malformation
Endocarditis
Familial isolated dilated cardiomyopathy
Familial isolated restrictive cardiomyopathy
Familial long QT syndrome
Giant cell arteritis
Heart attack / Infarction
Heart murmur
Hemorrhoid
Hereditary angioedema
Hereditary spherocytosis
Holt-Oram syndrome
Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Low blood pressure
Mitral valve prolapse
Moyamoya disease
Myocardial infarction
Myocarditis
Non-familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Obliterative arteriopathy
Orthostatic hypertension
Other diseases
Partial atrioventricular canal
Patent ductus arteriosus
Pericarditis
Peripheral arterial disease
Peripheral artery occlusive disease
Phlebitis
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
Pulmonary embolism
Raynaud Syndrome
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
Romano-Ward syndrome
Scimitar syndrome
Supra ventricular tachycardia
Supravalvular aortic stenosis
Takayasu arteritis
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transient ischemic attack
Transposition of the great arteries
Tricuspid atresia
Tumours of the heart
Valvular heart disease
Varicose veins
Vasculitis
Venous thrombosis
Ventricular tachycardia
Wegener granulomatosis

PCSK9-inhibitor drugs: A game-changer for individuals with extremely high cholesterol levels

1 Mar 2016

A 59-year-old heart patient with dangerously high levels of cholesterol that could not be adequately reduced by statin drugs now has near-normal cholesterol levels, thanks to a new class of drugs...

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