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A Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) Test The prostate specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that may be offered to you as routine screening in the context of a checkup by a primary care physician or urologist. But using the test for routine screening is controversial. Elevated results on a PSA test may occur for reasons other than cancer, such as an enlarged prostate, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or an infection in the prostate called prostatitis....

Many people engage in self-talk. I am sure there is nothing pathological about my habit — just a need to converse, see solutions, or even get advice from someone who knows my situation best, and that is me. I don’t mean to sound arrogant, just practical. I have lived with multiple sclerosis (MS) for 35 years and only now see the reality of what my future may look like. So naturally, small changes are huge changes in my day-to-day life....

One skill that may be helpful in facing situations like these is resilience. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity and stress. “Resilience is a trait that we strive toward, rather than something we do or do not have,” says Marisa Hilliard, PhD, associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital and founder of Baylor’s Resilience and Diabetes Behavioral Research Lab in Houston. There are many ways to build resilience, and for people managing a health condition such as diabetes, healthy routines can play an important role in times of stress, says Howard B....

Maxing out the potential of this morning miracle worker involves the right roast, grind, brewing style, water temperature, and other factors you may not be doing correctly, or even considering. Not to worry; we consulted experts on how to prepare the single healthiest cup, and they were willing to spill the beans. A large prospective cohort study published in May 2022 in Annals of Internal Medicine, which looked at data from more than 171,000 people, found that those who drank between one and a half and three cups of sweetened or unsweetened coffee per day had a roughly 30 percent lower risk of death than non-coffee-drinkers....

Fluid accumulates in the muscles, putting extra pressure on the damaged areas, leading to that familiar sensation of tightness and pain that typically begins to develop 12 to 24 hours after your workout, Dr. Arent explains. While you create a little bit of damage every time you exercise, certain types of workouts are notorious for higher levels of damage and — by extension — soreness. In particular, any workout that’s new to you, more intense than usual, or involves a lot of eccentric movements will likely cause more damage and soreness than other types of workouts....

Ankylosing spondylitis’s relative rarity — at least compared with other rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus — means it hasn’t been widely studied in the context of pregnancy. And it’s often lumped in with other diseases when doctors discuss risks related to pregnancy. But in the past couple of years, new research has shed light on just what the risks associated with pregnancy are when you have AS — both to mothers and their future children, during and after pregnancy....

“We see kids coming in with the diagnosis of recurrent infections and sometimes what they actually have is allergies,” says Nicholas Bennett, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics and adjunct assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and medical director of the department of infectious diseases and immunology at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. This is a common occurrence because there’s an overlap between allergy symptoms and the symptoms of an infection....

“Anybody can get TB. It’s an infectious disease,” says Lee Reichman, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine and epidemiology and the executive director emeritus at Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute in Newark, New Jersey. But the disease is pretty hard to spread. It takes six months of eight-hours-per-day contact to get infected with TB or two months of 24-hour contact, he explains. About 30 percent of people who are exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis will develop latent TB, and if that’s left untreated, around 5 to 10 percent of those people could end up getting active tuberculosis disease at some point in their lifetime....

I’d always felt self-conscious wading at the community pool with people looking at my skin, but the privacy of that backyard pool suited me perfectly. Since those days I’ve learned more about how to use natural sunlight to treat psoriasis, including important safety measures. Here’s what I know about how to enjoy the summer rays safely. Is It Safe to Treat Psoriasis With Sunlight? I asked my dad, who also has psoriasis, if he planned on getting more natural sunlight for his skin....

I look forward to seeing what the marketing departments have come up with in the previous 12 months. In fact, as we don’t own a television, I have to seek out these adverts online and get them in full-frontal, serial holiday emotional extortion bursts. Because I find them online, their country of origin (and language) are not limited to my own. Purpose and Intent Are a Potent Source of Motivation Every year seems to have a standout offering, and 2021 was no different....

According to Pew Research Center survey data, about half of Americans in 2015 — and 63 percent of Millennials — believe that the typical U.S. citizen is lazy. Another 2019 Pew survey found that a majority of Americans think people are lazier now than they used to be. Some experts see these criticisms as signs of unhelpful cultural pressures and narratives, rather than pointing the finger at people’s behavior. “Our culture’s belief that people are secretly ‘lazy’ deep down and need to be browbeaten into productivity is very old and has far-reaching roots,” says Devon Price, PhD, a psychologist and clinical assistant professor at Loyola University in Chicago....

Leukemia, as well as subsequent chemotherapy, has a distinct effect on dental health, which means that dental hygiene should be a priority when you’re fighting the disease. There are several dental symptoms to look out for when you have leukemia, as well as ways to prevent any problems. How Leukemia Affects Dental Health One of the first signs of leukemia can be gingivitis, or swelling and bleeding gums, says Sol Silverman, Jr....

A quick search around the web found several medications which I still have in the medicine locker that no longer carry said warning labels. I had to wonder if it was just my pharmacy that was no longer listing this side-effect (though I know which I have to take with food or milk, which I should use care when operating machinery, and the list goes on). There are aspects of the disease MS that can cause sensitivity to sun having to do with optic neuritis and migraine....

But that’s not the smart way to go. Eating a nutritious diet with proper portions can improve men’s health and help them maintain a healthy weight. There are also specific foods that don’t just improve men’s health generally, but also help stave off cancer, reduce the risk of heart disease, and boost overall energy. Men’s Health: Building a Healthy Diet Eating right for men’s health means putting together a daily diet with these choices:...

But a new study published in August 2021 in Science suggests that neither of these maxims are true. Metabolism, the rate at which the body burns energy, has long been thought to decline during middle age as people gradually lose muscle mass. For the study, researchers assessed metabolism by measuring total energy expenditure, which includes energy burned at rest to perform basic functions like digesting food as well as energy burned during physical activity, using a process known as the doubly labeled water method....

These findings may reflect the increasing use of nicotine for self-medication in response to adolescent depression, anxiety, tic disorders, and suicidality that rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, the researchers wrote. “The increasing intensity of use of modern e-cigarettes highlights the clinical need to address youth addiction to these new high nicotine products over the course of many clinical encounters,” said the senior author, Jonathan P. Winickoff, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, in a press release....

In my school days, I got up as late as I could, skipped breakfast, and ran to the school bus just in time to get on. After attending classes, I stayed after school for the rehearsal or practice of one thing or another, then got home to a plate of dinner being kept warm in the oven (these were the pre-microwave days!) — and started all over again the next day....

“No species on the planet — not even humans — are as overflowing with unconditional love as dogs,” says Glenn Zipper, coproducer and series originator with Amy Berg. “Medicine and doctors aside, I think we can all agree there is no greater healing power than love.” The six-part Netflix documentary tells the stories of six dogs and their caregivers around the world, in locales such as Syria, Germany, Italy, and the United States....

As a daily medication, aspirin can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It can also be taken during a heart attack to slow the damage being done to the heart muscle, giving you more time to get to the hospital. The brand of aspirin you take does not matter, but the dosage and the delivery are very different in those two situations. Many cardiologists recommend a daily low-dose aspirin to everyone over a certain age....

It is notoriously difficult to detect early because its most noticeable symptoms, such as jaundice, typically appear only in the later stages of the disease. Pancreatic cancer has a five-year survival rate of 11.5 percent, and as of 2019, there were about 90,000 people living with pancreatic cancer in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). (1) One reason for the high mortality rate is that the disease is often diagnosed only after it has spread outside the pancreas....