How to Keep Adult Friendships
Your friends help you live a healthier, happier life. Healthy friendships are linked to good things like lower stress, a positive sense of well-being, improved memory, better heart health, and a longer life. “Friendships affect our mood, sense of security, life experiences, and health,” says Mac Stanley Cazeau, LMHC, a couples therapist in New York […]
Porn Use Spiked During the Pandemic
May 26, 2021 — Move over, Netflix. You’re not the only video streaming outfit to benefit from the COVID-19 lockdown. In findings likely to surprise no one, new research shows Americans’ pornography usage spiked dramatically in the early months of the pandemic, as stay-at-home orders limited other types of … outlets. But the […]
Hair Relaxers Won’t Raise Black Women’s Cancer Risk
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Moderate use of hair relaxers doesn’t increase a Black woman’s risk of breast cancer, according to a new study. “While there is biologic plausibility that exposure to some components contained in hair relaxers might increase breast cancer risk, the evidence from epidemiologic studies to […]
Pot-Linked Poisoning Cases Rise as Edibles’ Popularity Booms
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, May 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Newfangled marijuana products — edibles, concentrates, vapes — are driving an overall increase in pot-related calls to U.S. poison control centers, a new study shows. There were more than 11,100 calls related to marijuana use in 2019, up from about 8,200 in 2017, […]
First-Time Sex: What You Should Know
When you are thinking about “having sex” for the first time, the stakes can seem really high. After all, the society and pop culture around you have been telling you that at some point in your life you will “lose your virginity,” as if it were an actual possession that you give away, never to […]
How to Choose the Right Place for Alcohol or Drug Rehab
SOURCES: Margaret A. E. Jarvis, MD, DFASAM, chief of addiction services, Geisinger Addiction Medicine; Geisinger Neuroscience Institute, Mechanicsville, PA. Paul H. Earley, MD, DFASAM, immediate past president, American Society of Addiction Medicine, College Park, GA. Marvin Ventrell, JD, chief executive officer, National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, Denver, CO. The American Journal of Psychiatry: […]
Signs That Your Friendship May Be Ending
Making new friends is such an enjoyable part of life, and we often pick them up as we move through our adult years. You may have gotten to know some friends through work. You may bond with others while raising young children. Still other friends, you may have met on the bike trail or playing […]
How to Be a Good Friend
Friendship is great for your health. In fact, studies have found that having stronger social relationships pays dividends in the form of less depression, better overall health, and a longer lifespan. But recent research suggests that many of us struggle to maintain those friendships. A 2018 survey from health insurer Cigna found that only around […]
Colonoscopy After 75: A Potential Lifesaver
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you’re over 75, being screened for colon cancer could save your life, a new study says. This week, the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the recommended age to begin colon cancer screening from 50 to 45 for people without a family […]
Life After Opioids
On a beach in South Florida, hundreds of miles from home, Lori Dilley Anthony reached a turning point in her life. She’d traveled from Delaware to get help for a nearly 35-year addiction to opioids and other drugs. She’d checked into the same treatment center as her husband, who’d made […]