Add Joy, Not Pounds, With Holiday Spirits
'Tis the season to encounter all of your favorite foods -- including many that can nudge the numbers on your scale upwards. Instead of obsessing over it, you might want…
How to Make the Holidays Easier When You’re Divorced
After a divorce, you may wonder how best to approach the holidays. Will you go to that party where you’ll see your ex? If you have kids, should you and…
How Money Buys Happiness: Buy Experiences, Spend on Others, and More Tips
“Money can’t buy me love,” the Beatles sang. But can greenbacks buy a measure of happiness?Yes, to an extent, psychologists say, but many people don’t know how to spend for…
Beyond Babies, RSV Infections Put Older People at Risk, Too
Dec. 5, 2022 – The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) “season” this year is notable for a number of reasons, including the relatively early and large spike in cases that is…
Have Long COVID? Newest Booster Vaccines May Help You
SOURCES:Jackie Dishner, Phoenix.Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, director, Clinical Epidemiology Center, Washington University, St. Louis; chief of Research and Development Service, Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.Nature Medicine: “Acute and postacute…
Severe Seizures Are Rising, Especially Among Minorities
By Denise Mann HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Growing numbers of Americans are suffering prolonged, life-threatening seizures known as status epilepticus, and Black people are nearly twice as…
Shingles Ups Odds of Stroke, Heart Attack By Almost 30%
By Amy Norton HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Dec. 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- People who've had a bout of shingles may face a heightened risk of heart attack or stroke in later years,…
Handling the Stigma
By Sonja Wasden, as told to Kara Mayer Robinson I’m a mental health advocate living with major depression.I speak with Fortune 500 companies, women’s prisons, firefighters, police officers, drug rehabilitation centers, nonprofit…
Keep It From Affecting Your Relationships
By Deborah Serani, PsyD, as told to Hallie Levine When it comes to talking about how depression affects relationships, I’m the expert. And it’s not just because I’m a psychologist. I’ve…
How I Share About My Condition
By Bianca Palmisano, as told to Hope Cristol I talk a lot about what it means for me to be disabled, both with my friends and in the workplace. So talking…