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by Wellness Editor Japanese workers are losing their lives to an entirely preventable condition: Karoshi. Defined as death caused by working too much, or job-related exhaustion, karoshi has become a public-health crisis that Japan can no longer ignore. With nearly 25% of the country’s employees working more than 80 hours of overtime per month, as reported by the BBC, Japan has recognized that it needs to create more... 7/6/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Wellness Editor Heart transplant waiting lists could someday be a thing of the past. 3D printing technology has taken a step in an incredible new direction with the first complete printing of a human heart. Researchers are apparently now using 3D printing technology to create human hearts using ink made with heart and blood vessel stem cells combined with hydrogel. These researchers used CT imaging to make the transplant... 6/5/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Wellness Editor Federal officials have charged 53 medical professionals, including 31 doctors, with illegally prescribing and distributing narcotic pain killers. The April 2019 bust, conducted by the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force, proved to be the largest takedown of “whitecoat” opioid prescribers to date. The law enforcement effort focused on states most heavily impacted by the opioid crisis,... 6/5/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Nancy Nichols Like it or not, dating is a game. Play your cards right and you can land a great guy!Do men seem unattracted to you? Do men hardly ask you out for a second date?Maybe you ask yourself (as I once did) …Why do men desire, respect and pursue some women and not others? What is the magic allure that causes a man to prefer a woman over his buddies, fall in love and seriously consider marriage?I believe... 6/4/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. What do beans, grains, nuts, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers have in common? They have been wrongfully accused of being dangerous because they contain lectin proteins. So say advocates of the Paleo diet websites and books loaded with misinformation. All of which can confuse and harm people who are already eating an insufficient amount of plant foods. What is harmful to our health is promoting this... 6/4/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Dawn Michael Creating Mind SexMind sex is not about playing a game or manipulating your partner. Mind sex is mental foreplay before sex, and some men have mastered this already in their marriage while others have no idea what it is.The men that have mastered mind sex in a marriage are those guys whose wives just can't seem to keep their hands off them. Well at least once in a while, that is. We do see this in married... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Wellness Editor Wellness Tip: Cardiologists from the University of Maryland Medical Center believe that laughter helps your heart. Laughter helps increase blood flow, lower stress hormones and improve our immune system.Stress and inflammation in and around our inner blood vessels (endothelium) can lead to heart attacks and strokes. But when we laugh our body releases beta-endorphins; this causes our inner blood vessels... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Beth Rosenshein An orgasm without sexual sensation is not as uncommon as you would think. If you normally have, or have had, normal sexual response and then you find that you feel the vibrations of an orgasm without the intense pleasure, then you have had an orgasm without sexual sensation. It is often called sexual anhedonia, orgasmic anhedonia or pleasure dissociative orgasmic dynfunction (PDOD), and can affect... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Suzanne Venker Attitudes may have changed since the days when husbands brought home the bacon and when wives stayed home with the kids. But it turns out deviating from conventional gender roles makes both men and women miserable. Research by Karen Kramer and Sunjin Pak at the University of Illinois examined data on nearly 1,500 men and 1,800 women and found the more women’s paychecks increased, the more women reported... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
by Darian Carrow Women all over the United States are fighting against Bayer AG because of their Essure permanent birth control device. Essure, a non-surgical sterilization device for women, has been the subject of severe scrutiny as thousands of women have reported a multitude of adverse events as a result of the device. This past summer, there were a total of 20,000 documented adverse events that were reported by... 5/15/2019 7:00:00 AM
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