Heart Disease and the Mediterranean Diet

New studies have brought back positive and well earned attention to the Mediterranean Diet. In the study, 2,300 healthy elderly men and women were evaluated over a course of ten years. It was...

Raynaud’s Disease and Chelation Therapy

Raynaud’s Disease causes your arteries to narrow, causing low blood circulation. It usually affects your extremities, most often the fingers. The resulting effects are numbness or extreme coldness....

Studies Show Smoking Worsens AMD

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness or vision loss in people 65 years of age and older. Diagnosed in two forms, wet or dry, AMD can lead to legal blindness. Wet...

How Fake Treatments Reduce Real Pain

People who think a placebo treatment for pain is working in fact experience reduced pain signaling in their spinal cord, according to a new study. The new results suggest that the pain-related...

Chronic Pain Makes 50 Year Olds Feel 80

People who suffer chronic pain tend to have general physical capabilities similar to those decades older, according to a new study. Scientists re-examined data from a 2004 study of more than 18,500...