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As a busy travel season approaches, disruptions at the airport and on airlines are inevitable. Travelers’ stress and intolerance has significantly increased throughout the year but planning ahead and remaining calm will facilitate your chaotic travel days. A Baylor College of Medicine expert provides insight on how to plan for and cope with delays and

Since the start of the pandemic, the most terrifying task in health care was thought to be when a doctor put a breathing tube down the trachea of a critically ill covid patient. Those performing such “aerosol-generating” procedures, often in an intensive care unit, got the best protective gear even if there wasn’t enough to

Like ordering a ride or food delivery on your smartphone, keeping track of your heart rate, blood pressure or weight is just a few taps away thanks to thousands of free or inexpensive health apps. But with each click, you may be unwittingly handing over your health data to a third party. As health apps

(HealthDay)—If you plan to make a New Year’s resolution about improving your health, the American Medical Association (AMA) has some good suggestions. “With too many holiday sweets and not enough exercise likely in the rearview mirror, now is the perfect time to consider your personal goals and how you can make positive health choices in

Whether you’re trying to spice things up with your significant other or connecting with a new partner, navigating your sex life can be complicated. So you might just turn to someone you trust for a bit of their hard-earned wisdom and some tips. But often the sex advice you might get from family, friends or

Does your tattoo sport your old flame’s name? Or the one you got on a whim no longer fits your image? You’re not alone. Many people have “tattoo regret” and are opting to get the ink removed. Nearly 3 in 10 U.S. adults have one or more tattoos and 25% want them removed, according to

It can be hidden in bread, pizza, soup and other packaged foods and restaurant meals. Now, advice to watch out for salt is coming with a more specific reason. A report released Tuesday by the National Academies of Science ties the recommended limit on sodium to a reduced risk of chronic disease. The report, which

The gender equity problem is significant in health IT, with more than half of women in the industry saying that it will take 25 years or more to achieve gender parity, according to a recent Rock Health report. It’s a pretty bleak outlook, but supported by some damning facts: Just a mere 10 percent of

When it comes to bad weight loss recommendations, dietitians have heard it all from their clients. Here are the tips they wish you’d stop believing, plus some proven strategies to use instead. “Stop Eating Gluten.” We’ve said this before, but let’s say it again. Unless you have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity, there’s no

How to REALLY beat back pain: As new studies reveal many treatments do little to help, doctors offer advice on what actually works and what doesn’t Four out of five adults in the UK experience back pain at some point in their life It accounts for seven million trips to the GP a year, many

Medical advice about implanted cardiac defibrillators obtained via an online message board appears to be accurate only half of the time, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in quality of care and outcomes research