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Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The 'Other' Stroke
J Mocco, MD, MS
Professor and Vice Chair for Education
Director, Cerebrovascular Center
Residency Program Director
Department of Neurological Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System
Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The 'Other' Stroke
A recent patient of mine, 48-year-old "Joe" (not his real name), was eating with his family at an Italian restaurant. Suddenly, he stood up, cursed, and collapsed. They brought him to the hospital, and he could not talk, move, or do anything we asked him to do.
It turned out that Joe had suffered the second-most common, but deadliest, form of stroke: intracerebral hemorrhage.
When people hear "stroke,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Perfect Match: health, Hippocrates and lifestyle medicine
Amid the frustration and despair associated with rising premiums, healthcare costs and obesity prevalence, is a trend that is slowly infiltrating the healthcare industry. Although some of the most notable trends (in fitness and nutrition) tend to come and go as quickly as a fastball (World Series, anyone?), this particular trend has an immense amount of staying power based on current scientific research. This immense power has little to do with pharmacological interventions and prescription refills and much more to do with our feet, forks, fingers and minds. This trend, as written in a recent article by the influential and...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Not All Caregivers' Stories Are The Same, But Their Pain Is
I had a great conversation the other day with a woman who takes care of her 90-year-old mother. Her mom continues to live independently, which is a nice way of saying that her daughter would prefer having her fingernails ripped out than having mom come stay with her. The daughter pays through the nose to have in-home caregivers pretty much around the clock.
Before you rush to judge and marvel at what money can buy, just know that this adult daughter feels the burden of caregiving as acutely as the rest of us. She feels the same sense of loss, the same guilt, the same obligation, the same sometimes-resentment. She too makes...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Woman's Place is at the Table
As I watched Donald Trump pace behind Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate, I noticed myself growing increasingly uncomfortable. At the time, I attributed my discomfort to the generalized anxiety accompanying this particularly contentious election cycle. It was only when I saw the Saturday Night Live parody of that debate that I realized what had truly spooked me. It was the way Alec Baldwin, playing Donald Trump, lurked menacingly behind Kate McKinnon, playing Hillary Clinton, throughout the event. It was on his final swerve across the frame, to the soundtrack of Jaws, that I understood the source of my d...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Men From The South Are More Likely To Die From Smoking-Related Cancers
Smoking causes nearly 29 percent of all cancer deaths among Americans over the age of 35, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine. But that doesn’t tell the full story.
Men from the top five southern states skew this data, dying at a rate that’s 40 percent higher than the national average.
The higher proportion of cancer deaths attributable to smoking in the South isn’t simply because people in that region smoke more ― that distinction goes to the Midwest. Instead, experts say, the lack of funding for tobacco control programs means that there are less resources for people wh...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can't Sleep? Now There's A Coach For That.
First came diet coaches, exercise coaches, career coaches and spiritual and life coaches. There should be no surprise that as the population ages and increasingly has trouble staying asleep that the next step would be sleep coaches.
Insomnia is the most common sleep problem for adults, and has been linked to depression, falls, stroke and memory problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBTI, is considered a highly effective method for treating the disorder, but many do not receive it due to a lack of therapists with CBTI training, according to a paper published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Socie...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
7 Very Simple Tips For Healthy Living When You Are On A Tight Budget
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People with a limited budget are often concerned about the potential costs of making changes in their life that will improve their overall health. However, there are many small changes that you can take at a limited cost and some may actually even save you money.
Some of them are:
1. Walking
One of the major causes of low levels of fitness and poor health is not getting enough exercise. People often argue that they do not have the money to start a new exercise regime as a gym membership is usually expensive. However, there are plenty of ways that you can exercise for free and the easiest one of these is ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How To Keep Your Kidneys Healthy
Here's a fact you can impress your friends with -- every 30 minutes your kidneys filter all the blood in your body eliminating waste and excess fluid. Pretty amazing isn't it. Yet, how many of us really know how well are kidneys are functioning? One in three Americans are at risk for developing kidney disease and approximately 26 million Americans have kidney disease with most not knowing it.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition causing reduced kidney function over a period of time. It is diagnosed when a person's glomerular filtration rate remains below 60 milliliters per minute for more than 3 months or when a per...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Doctors Want Politicians To Know About Abortion
At the third and final debate last Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump drew a lot of criticism for his medically inaccurate and emotionally charged description of late-term abortion.
Trump described a procedure that rips the baby out of the womb in the ninth month of pregnancy — a shocking characterization that medical experts have denounced and refuted as a gross distortion of the procedure. Here’s what he said:
If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say tha...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Physicians At Teaching Hospitals
In the United States, Medicare pays the salary and fringe benefits of interns and residents in teaching hospitals. This amounts to about $100 thousand per resident every year. Of this amount, the resident is paid about $40-$50 thousand per year in salary.
Some of the dollars from Medicare are paid to physicians in charge of training the residents. In addition, several billion dollars is paid to teaching hospitals every year to offset the added costs of training residents. These costs include malpractice coverage for the residents and the added costs generated by inexperienced physicians who have a tendency, it is believ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lengthened Lifespan Demands Focus On Extending Brain Health
Humans can only live so long and we’re close to reaching the natural biological limit, if we haven’t reached it already. That’s what Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists say in a new report.
The report cites data, which strongly suggest the maximum human lifespan of 125 years was attained in the 1990s. And while experts say there is no scientific reason more serious interventions into the biology of aging couldn’t extend the human lifespan, the report says the possibility is essentially constrained by any number of genetic variants.
I applaud and wholeheartedly celebrate making improvement...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Knowing Your Triglyceride Number Matters
Many of us can rattle off our latest cholesterol number at the drop of a hat. Keeping an eye on your cholesterol is important but there's another number you also should have memorized - your triglycerides. However, if asked about our triglyceride number, most of us have little to know idea what it is. That's too bad because our triglyceride number reveals quite a bit of how healthy we are or not. The good news is there are many steps we can take to get it in a healthier range starting today.
What are triglycerides?
Triglycerides (TG) are the most common type of fat in the body and are an important measure of heart health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Five Ways Reading Can Improve Health and Well-Being
For many of us, there's nothing quite like getting lost in a good book.
Reading can transport us to another world, providing escape from life's everyday stresses, at least temporarily.
But increasingly, researchers are finding that reading may offer some real benefits for health and well-being.
In August, Medical News Today reported on a study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine that claimed reading books could increase lifespan.
Led by researchers from Yale University School of Public Health, the study revealed that adults who reported reading books for more than 3 ½ hours per week were 23 percent less...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Don't Let A Chronic Health Condition Diminish Your Sex Life
A chronic medical condition not only can bring changes to the normalcy of your everyday life, but it can also bring significant changes to your love life. As in, diminishing a good thing you had going before your health declined.
One important aspect of your overall well-being is sexual satisfaction. We are all built and wired to want to have an enjoyable sexual experience but often when we are dealing with a chronic disease or condition, things are just not the same. But bringing up this personal and intimate side of ourselves to our doctor can be difficult. Discussing sexual problems can feel uncomfortable and unless a ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Life-Saving Question: Are My Arteries Calcified?
I am returning from a conference on heart attack and stroke prevention and was reviewing some of my notes on the goal of earlier diagnosis and treatment of arterial disease, also known as atherosclerosis. One feature of atherosclerosis is that the vast majority of plaques become calcified. Calcified arteries can be identified on most X-ray studies, even routine chest X-rays. CT imaging is particularly good at showing this pathology. Calcified arteries as a sign of atherosclerosis caught the public attention a few years back when whole body CT scans on 4,000 year old mummies demonstrated abnormalities in almost half. So muc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
