Can your personality influence your health? The answer is yes, according to a study published this month by the American Psychological Association. Researchers found that patients who were rated as highly conscientious in their 20s were more likely to be in better health over a decade later.
Month: March 2014
Telemental health — offering computer-based therapy sessions — has a promising future for older ethnic adults who face an uphill battle accessing services for common problems like depression and anxiety.
Confirmed cases of measles in California have increased ten times over last year at this time, the California Department of Public Health reported Friday. The department said 32 confirmed cases have been confirmed so far this year compared to just three at this time a year ago. “Immunization is the best defense against measles, with 99 percent of persons developing immunity after two doses,” Dr.
Physicians are a leading source of prescription opioids for those at the highest risk for abuse, according new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings, published last Monday by JAMA Internal Medicine, undermine a popular belief that people who abuse narcotic pain relievers — including hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone — obtain them without a prescription.
Even in California’s fertile Central Valley – where 25 percent of the nation’s produce is grown – many people go without fresh fruit or vegetables — because they can’t afford them or don’t have a story nearby that sells them.
More than 3 million Californians have enrolled in private or public health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, exceeding projections made before enrollment began last fall, officials said Thursday.
Brad Schwartz had been homeless, living mostly outside, for the last 30 years. Today the 57-year-old is cleaning and repairing a cottage he now calls home, thanks to a homeless housing initiative in Santa Cruz called 180/180.
A new review of U.S. gun laws, Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America, recently published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, looks at new developments in gun policies since the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last year.
With an aging, active population, demands for knee-replacement surgery are projected to climb to 4 million a year by 2030.
In the last year and a half, doctors in California have seen about twenty cases of what may be a new disease. Patients, usually children, quickly and permanently lose muscle function in an arm or leg, sometimes, but not always after having respiratory symptoms.