Why Better Health Starts with a Better Mattress
Health Hacks Getting adequate sleep is essential to a healthy lifestyle. That’s why it’s so important to find a mattress that best supports restful sleep.
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Even as the medical field is becoming more inclusive, women still face challenges of resources and respect.
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After Sgt. Lee McNeill got a facial injury while serving overseas, he had a hard time finding an oral surgeon who could help him — until he met Dr. Kevin Neshat.
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In the short time he’s held office, the nation’s doctor has proven himself a fierce opponent of the nation’s opioid crisis. He addresses the work being done to eradicate stigma and save lives.
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The founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation holds fast to his organization’s commitment to zero preventable patient deaths and explains why he’s confident they’ll make their goal.
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When the Oscar-winning actress was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she felt pressure to stay silent. Now she's speaking out in the hope that women everywhere can stay healthy.
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Mental health conditions are common among teens and young adults, personally impacting one in five Americans. This is a reality that model, actress, writer and social activist Corinne Foxx knows all too well.
Health Hacks Getting adequate sleep is essential to a healthy lifestyle. That’s why it’s so important to find a mattress that best supports restful sleep.
Prevention & Treatment Dental visits are about more than catching cavities and cleaning teeth. Dentists also check your mouth for signs of other diseases.
Prevention & Treatment For years, sleep apnea wasn’t considered a serious health issue and many of its sufferers don’t even know that they have it. But today doctors are recognizing the serious risk lack of sleep can pose.
Sponsored One of last year’s most powerful PSAs about the opioid epidemic came from an unexpected source: three Connecticut teens.
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Prevention & Treatment Almost half of all adults over 30 in the United States have gum disease, a condition that is treatable and currently has better outcomes than ever before.
Prevention & Treatment Living with celiac disease and its diet necessities has become easier with more gluten-free food and beverage options available.
Sponsored What does it mean to be a man? That’s one of the questions being asked on college campuses in light of a sexual violence epidemic that has become increasingly pressing following the #MeToo movement.
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Sponsored As the opioid crisis generates alarming stats, surgeons radically rethink their pain management approach with new tools.
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Prevention & Treatment In an exclusive Q&A with Mediaplanet, AAPD President Dr. James Nickman explains how parents can instill in their kids healthy dental habits early on and prevent oral disease as they grow up.
Prevention & Treatment For Adina Epstein, a cancer diagnosis came almost too late. Now, she wants to advocate for earlier screenings and diagnoses.
Education & Research Title IX requires schools to respond to sexual assault and harassment that limit a students’ ability to engage in education. When choosing a college, students must examine whether schools take this seriously.
Education & Research Thousands of nurses are showing their commitment to the field and their patients by becoming oncology certified nurses.
Sponsored With the use of radiopharmaceuticals, pain from bone metastases in breast, prostate and lung cancer doesn’t have to come with severe side effects.
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Advocacy As a size 2 teen, she was told she’d need to lose weight to cut it as a model. Now she’s a social media maven, modeling the biggest fashion brands in magazines and on the runway.
Health Hacks Letting high blood pressure go untreated can lead to severe heart conditions like heart attack and stroke. Here are a few key ways to keep your numbers down.
Prevention & Treatment Though the aviation and health care industries may seem worlds apart, they can learn from one another in implementing simulations to improve safety outcomes.
Prevention & Treatment The list of social media apps demanding our attention grows daily. The pressure to be active on all of these networks, can quickly become exhausting.
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Education & Research Despite cancer research improving with each year, younger people remain especially susceptible. Luckily, organizations have begun to address the discrepancies in treatment.
Prevention & Treatment The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids offers a six-part guide for families to help protect their children.
Sponsored A new strategy combining traditional cancer research with modern computer analytics is giving researchers new tools in the war on cancer.
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Health Hacks Hearing can be a crucial part of living. Not only does it raise your awareness about the world, but it’s also important for safety, enjoyment of music and communication.
Education & Research The media loves to talk about sex. Unforunately, some of our most ubiquituous forms of media get a lot wrong when they take on sexual education.
Prevention & Treatment Medical innovations have nearly eliminated CHD mortality for infants, but experts say closer and longer-term care is needed for their optimal health.
Advocacy As the opioid epidemic continues to ravage our country, the private sector is working to change the landscape of addiction treatment in the United States.
Sponsored College is a time for cultivating passions and forging friendships. Unfortunately, for some, the transition to independence can also lead to anxiety, depression or worse.
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Prevention & Treatment Two experts in the field talk to Mediaplanet about the biggest contributors to sleep deprivation in America and what is being done to help people get better sleep.
Prevention & Treatment The patient safety landscape in 2018 is changing rapidly as public and private sector players work together to ensure safe, high-quality care for all patients. But challenges remain.
Advocacy Twenty-three-year-old Brianna Bossotti knows no one lives forever, but after a battle against cancer she won in 2017, she knows how important it is to fight for that life.
Prevention & Treatment As every state and district has different protocol for dealing with an active shooter, colleges need to have hands-on training to get everyone on the same page.
Education & Research Technology has a significant impact on patient outcomes, making it more important than ever to act with caution when bringing new devices into a hospital setting.
Advocacy Intimate portraits of children living with rare diseases bring much needed awareness to a once near-invisible community.
Advocacy Pediatric oncology is a dynamic, challenging field. Nurses balance treatment with the utmost care for the smallest patients.
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Advocacy Ilene Corina experienced the worst and best of health care. Now she’s dedicated her life to helping other patients take charge.
Advocacy Professionals and patients are joining forces to raise awareness and effect change for patients living with alopecia areata.
Advocacy Julie Nimoy retraces her father Leonard’s battle with lung disease — stressing how fans and at-risk individuals can limit their chances of following in his footsteps.
Advocacy Read the touching tale of Dominic and Plato, a dynamic team that shows us a novel — and adorable — solution to overcoming the challenges of deafness in a noisy world.
Health Hacks Electronic devices hinder sleep quality so here are some ways to mitigate those negative effects.
Prevention & TreatmentYou eat right and stay active, but are you focusing on eye health? The president of the American Optometric Association has some simple steps to help.
Health HacksFebruary is American Heart Month, and we at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) want to encourage all Americans to include more movement into their days.
Education & ResearchEmpowering your teen to make healthy decisions about sex can be easier with trust and transparency.
Education & ResearchIf you have diabetes, the risk of foot wounds can be deadly serious. Here’s what all patients should know about diabetes wounds and their treatment.
Prevention & TreatmentWhen you go to sleep and wake up not only depends on your personal preferences, biological differences play a role as well.
Education & ResearchFrom their sexual role models to masturbation techniques, we caught up with two of Refinery29's health editors — and nothing was off the record.
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