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The interesting part, according to Glenn Fox, PhD, lecturer of entrepreneurship at USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, who researches the neuroscience behind gratitude, is that all of it is really good for well-being and health. What’s more, research suggests our brains are actually wired to respond positively to it, Fox explains. “By practicing gratitude, we engage and strengthen these circuits, and thus gain more benefit from gratitude,” he says....

After contracting hepatitis A virus, or HAV, symptoms don’t appear right away. The virus has an incubation period of two to seven weeks before any symptoms occur, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), with the average incubation period lasting 28 days. However, some people, especially young children, may catch the virus without even knowing it because symptoms never develop. In fact, about 70 percent of hepatitis A cases in children under six years old are asymptomatic, according to the CDC....

This can cause pain and other unpleasant symptoms, especially when you’re moving around or lifting heavy objects. Often, hernias get worse over time, with more tissue pushing through the affected muscle. If a hernia isn’t managed and properly treated, it can lead to severe and potentially life-threatening complications. (1) You may also be a candidate for watchful waiting if you have any heath conditions that raise the risk of complications from hernia repair surgery....

Women who have never had high blood pressure before may develop hypertension during pregnancy. When this happens after 20 weeks of pregnancy, it’s known as gestational hypertension. This is a form of secondary hypertension caused by pregnancy, and it frequently goes away after delivery. (1) RELATED: 6 Things You Should Know About High Blood Pressure While many women with high blood pressure deliver healthy babies, hypertension can affect a mother’s kidneys and increase her risk of heart disease, kidney disease, and stroke....

Blood pressure is the force exerted by your blood against your arteries. As your heart pumps, it forces blood out through arteries that carry the blood throughout your body. The arteries keep tapering off in size until they become tiny vessels, called capillaries. At the capillary level, oxygen and nutrients are released from your blood and delivered to the organs. Types of Blood Pressure There are two types of blood pressure: Systolic blood pressure refers to the pressure inside your arteries when your heart is pumping; diastolic pressure is the pressure inside your arteries when your heart is resting between beats....

The longer and more significant a person’s exposure to carbon monoxide, the more severe the symptoms can become, ultimately leading to death. Carbon Monoxide in the Home A malfunctioning or inappropriately used heating, cooking, or ventilation system in the home can allow leakage of carbon monoxide gas into the air, leaving you breathing toxic gas without knowing it. Carbon monoxide can come from a number of sources within the home:...

In addition, spasticity, or MS-induced tightness in the calf muscle, can contribute to the toes’ pointing downward, making it even more difficult for the muscles to lift the foot, says Mandy Rohrig, a physical therapist and the senior programs consultant for Can Do MS. When you walk with foot drop, you may catch your toes on the ground and trip because you can’t lift the toes out of the way when swinging the foot during a step, explains Michelle Fabian, MD, an associate professor of neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City....

“Pancreatic cancers come in many forms, and there is a totally different approach to treating PNETs from adenocarcinomas,” says Richard Schulick, MD, the chair of surgery and director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora. The five-year survival rate for a PNET is a remarkable 93 percent if the tumor is localized (has not spread), according to the American Cancer Society. That’s because PNETs behave differently than adenocarcinomas, which are fast to grow and often metastatic (meaning they have spread to other organs in the body)....

Over-the-counter drugs and nondrug interventions can help you cope with COVID-19 symptoms, which are typically some mix of runny nose, headache, fatigue, sneezing, sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, muscle or body aches, fever or chills, or other issues. If you are at high risk of becoming extremely sick or even dying from COVID-19 — because you are elderly or obese, for example, or because you have a medical condition like diabetes — you may be eligible for new experimental therapies authorized for emergency use by the U....

However, for some people, applying certain types of sunscreen can also cause a skin allergy. Sunscreen allergies tend to be uncommon, according to Joshua Zeichner, MD, the director of cosmetic and clinical research in the dermatology department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, but if you’re prone to skin allergies or concerned that sunscreen is irritating your skin, here’s what to do. Understand the Ingredients in Your Sunscreen There are two types of sunscreen: chemical sunscreen and physical, or mineral, sunscreen....

“Invisible conditions can be just as disabling as visible conditions — oftentimes more so — but they don’t get the empathy or credibility that visible conditions get,” says Christina Irene, an invisible-disabilities speaker and author, who lives with osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). During flares of her conditions, Irene may experience extreme fatigue, brain fog, body aches, and mental health symptoms such as anxiety and depression. She thinks people naturally struggle to believe things they can’t see, and these doubts and denial fuel stigma and feelings of isolation in those with invisible disabilities....

Previous research has suggested that intentionally letting your mind wander has real-world benefits. A study published in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice in 2019 found it helped people process difficult emotions; other research has found links with problem solving and even enhanced creativity. Despite these rewards, “individuals have difficulty appreciating just how engaging thinking can be,” explained Kou Murayama, PhD, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and one of the study authors, in an APA press release....

The super-popular but little-studied keto diet places specific guidelines on how much of each macronutrient to eat each day, with daily calories usually being made up of 75 percent fat, 20 percent protein, and 5 percent carbs. This means drastic cuts to the typical American’s carb intake, usually amounting to no more than 15 to 30 grams of carbohydrates per day, says Colleen O’Sullivan, a member of the nutrition services team at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center in Lemont, Illinois....

According to a survey conducted by the National Headache Foundation, about half of all headache sufferers blame headache triggers like bright lights, computers, and loud noise. “Many common headache triggers occur in the home,” says MaryAnn Mays, MD, a neurologist who specializes in headaches at the Cleveland Clinic. “Home odors, bright lighting, and loud noise can all trigger headaches or make headaches worse,” adds Dr. Mays. “Making your home a headache-free zone may not eliminate all your headaches, but it can certainly help....

“It’s refreshing to hear a celebrity focusing on what to eat instead of what not to eat,” says Angela Lemond, RDN, a nutritionist in private practice in Dallas. “We need more celebrities with empowering messages around food and eating.” Meghan’s foodie-first attitude toward balanced eating is as healthy as her mostly plant-based diet. Both are sure to help her deal with the challenges of being a public figure and, now, a new mom for the second time....

Researchers are working to fully understand the link between high blood pressure and migraine; it’s unclear whether one causes the other, or whether there is another factor that may cause them both. Whatever the case, it’s important for anyone with high blood pressure to get it under control, and that’s especially true for people with other risk factors for heart disease, including migraine. “Individuals with migraine are at higher risk overall of cardiovascular disease, particularly stroke, so for that reason, it’s important for people with migraine to manage other risk factors, including hypertension,” says Pamela Rist, ScD, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T....

Gothamist on October 18 wrote that New York City has almost eliminated monkeypox, and in San Francisco, the local government announced that the public health emergency due to monkeypox will end on October 31 as cases there have dropped to under one per day. On October 20, however, health officials in New York and Nevada said they had recorded their first monkeypox-related deaths, according to CBS News. The CDC reported that the total of confirmed deaths worldwide from the current outbreak stands at 32 with 4 total deaths in the United States....

The survey, released in December 2019 from Gallup, found that an average of 28 percent of Americans said they weighed 200 pounds (lbs) or more from 2010 to 2019, up from 24 percent in the previous decade. The average weight has also risen for both men and women and now stands at 178 lbs, with an average increase of 4 lbs for men, from 192 to 196, and 3 lbs for women, from 156 to 159....

This was far from a typical orchestra rehearsal, though. Five stroke survivors and their families were working with musicians from London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) and health experts from AdventHealth to implement music therapy into their healing. The international medical research program, called Strokestra, was a learning exchange session between RPO members and teams at AdventHealth Rehab and Music Therapy. Preliminary data from a pilot study in the United Kingdom found that participants in the stroke rehabilitation program experienced clinically significant improvements related to mental well-being and recovery....

So far, I’ve experienced failure and success, but overall, the positives have been life-changing for me. I am continuing down this path of healing because there is currently no cure for MS, and now that I’m 61, time is not on my side for a cure to be discovered! How My Second Try Differed From My First In 2014, I had a procedure in which adult stem cells were isolated from my fat tissue, grown in a lab, and reinfused into my body....