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Just 15 to 20 minutes a day of gentle stretching, deep breathing, and meditation can make a difference in easing psoriatic arthritis symptoms. An analysis of 15 studies published in Biological Research for Nursing in March 2019 found that people with chronic inflammatory conditions, including arthritis, reap benefits from yoga. Yoga strengthens muscles and maintains flexibility, says Emily Fiocchi, a yoga instructor and certified physical therapy assistant at Geisinger HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania....

Sinusitis is another term for sinus infections, though sinusitis refers to inflammation of the sinuses, with or without an infection. Sinus infections are usually classified as acute or chronic depending on how long they last, with acute infections resolving within 4 weeks and chronic infections lasting 12 weeks or longer. (1) Sinus infections most often arise after a viral infection, such as the common cold, and are most often caused by viruses, such as rhinoviruses, influenza viruses, and parainfluenza viruses....

Logan Stiner, an 18-year-old star high school wrestler in LaGrange, Ohio, died from a caffeine powder overdose in May 2014, according to the local medical examiner, as reported by the Elyria Chronicle Telegram. His overdose death from such a commonly used product as caffeine prompted a warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Consumers should avoid using pure powdered caffeine products for any reason because they can be dangerous, even deadly....

According to the CDC, only about 55 percent of people who could benefit from taking a cholesterol medication are currently using one. Yet a study published in May 2019 in the journal Diabetes Metabolism Research and Review found that reducing the risk of a heart event with these drugs could come at a cost: an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. “Our findings suggest that more research is needed to better understand the biologic changes that take place when patients take statins,” says Victoria Zigmont, PhD, assistant professor of public health at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven and lead author of the study....

The research provides the first national estimate of how widespread the auto-immune disease is, including its prevalence in certain ethnic groups. Overall, a total of 204,295 people had lupus in 2018 in the United States, according to the study published this month in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology. For every 100,000 people in the population, there were 72.8 cases of lupus. Lupus rates were 9 times higher for women compared with men, at 128....

Research published in the March issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that individuals who did any amount of strength training on a weekly basis had a 40 to 70 percent reduced risk of developing heart attack, stroke, or death related to heart disease compared with individuals who did no strength training (independent of how much aerobic exercise people did). And in a related study — published online ahead of print this month in Mayo Clinic Proceedings — researchers reported that having moderate muscle strength reduced type 2 diabetes risk by 32 percent, independent of individuals’ cardiovascular fitness levels....

When it comes to symptoms, eosiniphilic asthma isn’t that different from other types of asthma. “Symptoms are almost identical,” says Purvi S. Parikh, MD, an allergist and immunologist at NYU Langone Health in New York City. That said, with eosinophilic asthma, symptoms may be more severe and persistent, and the usual asthma medications don’t provide relief. With this type of asthma, “it’s unfortunately much harder to get symptoms under control,” Dr....

“Exercise is important for all people, including those with Crohn’s disease,” says Jessica Philpott, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Studies suggest swimming has a positive impact on people with an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) like Crohn’s, she says, especially when you’re in remission. Swimming to Ease Arthritis Pain Arthritis affects 25 percent of people with Crohn’s and is one of the most common complications occurring outside the intestinal tract....

Not that Gen X women (those born between 1965 and 1980) ever really snoozed blissfully, at least not in midlife. Calhoun lays out her argument in her book (and in an interview with Everyday Health published in February 2020): Middle-class women who are now in their forties and fifties are depressed, overwhelmed, and feel like losers. The problem is that many women in this generation were brought up thinking they could have it all — love, sex, success, power, money, or however they defined “it all....

I was hit by a car while crossing the street in Westport, Connecticut, in 1999, when I was 16 years old. The resulting injuries, including those to my brain, were severe. The medics at the scene found me unconscious and rushed me to the trauma center at Bridgeport Hospital, where I underwent surgery to remove a ruptured spleen, and metal rods were implanted in a broken femur and humerus bone on my left side....

Fortunately, there’s a free, easy-to-use tool that can help you keep your blood sugar level steady, regardless of whether you have diabetes. Meet: the glycemic load. By using an easy formula (no major arithmetic required!) you can learn how quickly foods that contain carbs — from cookies to carrots — lead to blood sugar spikes or dips, and, if you have diabetes, potentially help or hurt your A1C number. (That’d be the two- to three-month average of your blood sugar levels, as the American Diabetes Association notes....

But multiple myeloma often has no outward signs in its early stages, making it difficult to identify. In fact, 1 in 5 myeloma patients are diagnosed with the disease only because they’ve gone to the doctor for routine medical exams and had lab tests that revealed telltale changes in blood or urine. (1) Multiple myeloma can be easy to overlook even when there are symptoms, because common signs, such as fatigue, can be attributed to other health conditions or even simply to aging....

With a hoped for “return to normal” dependent on COVID-19 vaccines, how do we overcome the fact that many people are vaccine hesitant? How does vaccination history affect people’s perception, and what role do medical professionals play in explaining the science? To learn more, we chatted with a member of MedPage Today’s editorial board, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, the codirector of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital and the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston....

— Laurie, Florida Hives (known in the medical community as urticaria) are very itchy spots, pink to red, that appear on the skin, feel raised up from the surrounding skin, and then disappear without a trace (unless the person has scratched and damaged the skin). An individual hive can range from the size of a pencil eraser to the size of a dinner plate. Hives are not rare, and most people experience a brief bout of them at least once in their lives....

However, treatment can greatly improve quality of life and prolong life expectancy. Treatment of pulmonary hypertension depends on the specific type of pulmonary hypertension a person has. Physicians also take into account underlying conditions that could be contributing to the disease. At present, only one type known pulmonary hypertension, group one pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has drug treatments pproved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Newer drugs used in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, according to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA), include:...

HR+/HER- breast cancer is a common subtype of the disease in which cancer cells are responsive, initially, to hormone therapy, but not to drugs that target the HER2 protein. If it stops responding to initial treatments, and becomes metastatic (meaning it spreads) options are currently limited to chemotherapy. Sacituzumab govitecan (Trodelvy) is an antibody-drug conjugate. It combines an anti-cancer drug and an antibody that targets an antigen found in some forms of breast and bladder cancers....

In a study published July 2021 in the BMJ, researchers found that a higher intake of ultra-processed foods was associated with a higher risk of IBD. Ultra-processed foods include packaged baked goods, fizzy drinks, and sugary cereals, which often contain high levels of added sugar, fat, and salt, but lack vitamins and fiber. The analysis included about 116,000 adults ages 35 to 70 years old living in 21 low-, middle-, and high-income countries who were taking part in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study....

The same is true for people infected with the novel coronavirus. When scientists first began studying COVID-19 transmission, they focused on the large, virus-laden droplets produced when those individuals cough, sneeze, or talk. To reduce exposure, the researchers have been urging everyone to stay six feet apart from each other — to social distance. But in a way, that’s like focusing on the ashes of a cigarette while overlooking the spreading tendrils of smoke....

The vitamin D and type 2 diabetes study, dubbed D2d, was published in June 2019 in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and authors presented their findings at the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) 79th Scientific Sessions at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. “You can trust that, for an American population, taking vitamin D is not going to reduce the risk by 25 percent or more," says Myrlene A....

“With atopic dermatitis, an overall worsening state could mean someone is experiencing an increase in baseline severity of their flares, they’re seeing an uptick in the total number of flares per year, or both. It really depends on the individual,” says Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH, an associate professor of dermatology at the George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and a leading researcher on the condition. While there are treatments to help ease symptoms (and you should talk to your doctor if you find your discomfort growing), there are also behaviors you can change that might make a difference....