Headaches come in all shapes and sizes, from tension headaches caused by excessive stress or even excitement to the devastating pain of cluster headaches to debilitating and recurrent migraine headaches. Headaches have one thing in common. They make you miserable. What causes headaches? As mentioned above, stress is one cause. Allergies, sinusitis, head colds can all bring on a headache. Some medications also can cause... More at...
Caffeine is a drug. Coffee contains caffeine, and about 90% of Americans drink coffee, many of them in amounts that pour more than 300 milligrams of caffeine into their systems every day. Caffeine is a mild stimulant. It makes you more alert by fending off sleep. It's the most widely used drug in the world, and in contained in many foods and also in numerous stay awake medications like No Doz. Never forget, however, that... More at...
I'm sure it comes as no surprise to the majority of my readers when I say that health problems escalate as we grow older. Not only do the problems we already have become worse, new problems develop. Diseases like diabetes and arthritis either appear or become harder to deal with. Broken bones take longer to heal. Minor ailments like colds and the flu take forever, it seems, to go away. Many of these health complaints can... More at...
Italian astrologers called the seasonal misery we are familiar with "influenza" because they blamed it, as they did all misfortune, on the influence and placement of the heavenly bodies. However, we now know it's caused by a virus and is highly contagious. According to Health Canada, 500-1000 deaths occur in Canada each year due to influenza or its complications. The best way to gain protection from the flu is to have a yearly flu... More at...
Let’s continue on our topic of naps in healthy adults- the good, the bad, and the otherwise. Some more good news about napping. As we all have probably experienced in our life, a short nap has helped us learn something that we simply couldn’t grasp beforehand. This is because after intense work, parts of our brain begin to show signs of information saturation, meaning our brains are at capacity and we... More at...
Title: Eustachian Tube Problems (Problems Clearing Your Ears)
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 5/29/1999 9:47:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/24/2008 More at...
Title: Got a Complex Task? Study, Sleep on It
Category: Health News
Created: 11/21/2008
Last Editorial Review: 11/21/2008 More at...
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