Health Blogs

Patients with fibromyalgia who drink low or moderate amounts of alcohol have less severe symptoms than nondrinkers, according to a recent study. Low and moderate alcohol consumption was ... Read More »

Behaviorists are always on the lookout for new ways to help their patients feel better. Tim Dalgleish, Ph.D., of the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit conducted a study using ... Read More »

As a graduate student at Yale, psychological scientist and professor, Kiley Hamlin studied infants between the ages of 9 and 14 months old to define specific social preferences. She wanted to ... Read More »

Disappointed but not surprised. That was my initial reaction when I heard about a judge’s 11th hour ruling to strike down a ban in selling those large sugary drinks in New York City restaurants, ... Read More »

I’ve been writing a lot of posts lately that are specifically medical in nature. I do a lot of research, from a lot of different medical journals, and try to summarize those which can be, in the ... Read More »

Making health care safer, that’s what we all want. Medical mistakes contribute to unnecessary deaths each year, many of these during a hospital stay. To improve patient safety, the healthcare ... Read More »

Most clinicians think of autism, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disease, major depression, and schizophrenia as distinctly different mental illnesses even though there are some similarities in ... Read More »

Some children are inherently timid and others are born risk takers. But what about the kid who runs headlong into their peer at top speed as they are racing towards the play structure and when they ... Read More »

An allergy is the overreaction of the body’s immune system to a normally benign substance. When the body becomes hypersensitive to something, it treats it as an “invader.” Antibodies are ... Read More »