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Caring for family members with dementia—which is on the rise in the U.S.—causes significant emotional and physical stress that increases caregivers’ risk of depression, anxiety and death. A new method of coping with that stress by teaching people how to focus on positive emotions reduced their anxiety and depression after six weeks, reports a new national Northwestern Medicine study. It […]
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Patients with diabetes and low blood glucose have higher rates of death following hospital discharge, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. The cost for hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge is estimated to be close to $25 billion per year in the U.S. Patients with diabetes are frequently admitted to […]
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Next stop: pregnancy! Ronda Rousey and her husband, Travis Browne, got married in 2017 and are now trying to conceive their first child. “With me and my husband trying to start a family, we are very fortunate to be in a very secure position now,” the wrestler, 32, told Us Weekly exclusively at the LA Family Housing LAFH Awards & […]
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It seems like every week there’s a new dress code implemented at a school — but this time around, we’re learning about a school that’s put in place a new dress code targeting parents. The school is currently making headlines for its parent dress code after a mother named Joselyn Lewis — wearing a headscarf and a T-shirt dress — […]
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Jenna Bush Hager revealed that she was full of conflicting emotions when it came time to reveal news of her recent pregnancy to Today co-host Hoda Kotb — who struggled with infertility and adopted two baby girls, Haley, then Hope Catherine. Bush Hager is expecting her third child, a boy, with husband Henry Hager. On air at Today, she chatted […]
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Best … parents … ever! Chrissy Teigen and John Legend treated their daughter, Luna, to a Disneyland trip ahead of her third birthday. The couple’s eldest child, whose birthday actually falls on Sunday, April 14, visited the Anaheim, California, theme park on Friday, April 12. The model, 33, the singer, 40, Luna and the pair’s 10-month-old son, Miles, posed for […]
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Shawn Johnson knows the conflicted emotions that come with miscarrying a baby. “It’s such a confusing thing,” the Olympian, 27, says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “It’s like, ‘Should I be sad? Is that normal? Did I do something?’” The gymnast and her husband, Andrew East, announced on Thursday, April 4, that they are expecting a baby after losing […]
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(HealthDay)—From 2007 to 2015, the number of emergency department visits for suicide attempts (SA) and suicide ideation (SI) doubled among children, according to a research letter published online April 8 in JAMA Pediatrics. Brett Burstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the Montreal Children’s Hospital, and colleagues performed a repeated cross-sectional analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey emergency department database […]
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On a normal day, the cells of a human liver do what they do best—making key blood proteins, clearing toxins from the blood and sending their remains down the digestive tract in a never-ending stream of bile. But when something comes along that badly injures enough of those cells—such as a liver-damaging overdose of pain medicine—this vital work can come […]
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Spinal cord injury disconnects communication between the brain and the spinal cord, disrupting control over parts of the body. Studying the mechanisms of recovery, Leuven researcher Aya Takeoka (NERF) found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor functions. These new basic research findings […]
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