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Families can implement practical shifts at home to protect their high achieving daughter's mental health without discouraging her big dreams.

If you’ve had to cope with chronic anxiety, you know what professionals recommend for long-term help. Here are some strategies that can help you in the moment.

(MedPage Today) -- Patients taking GLP-1 receptor agonists for obesity had a 41% lower risk of obesity-related cancers as compared with patients treated with diet or exercise, a large propensity-matched cohort study showed. After 2 years of follow...

We blame Gen Z and Gen Alpha for disengaging, but what if they’re simply responding to a system that no longer rewards effort?

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- A fixed-dose combination of novel amylin analog cagrilintide and semaglutide, given once weekly, lowered blood glucose and weight in various populations with type 2 diabetes. The combination injectable, dubbed...

Survey research and numerous studies indicate that older people are happier people. But how are they happier? Is pleasure or life satisfaction the key as we age?

We often find ourselves in conversations that quickly turn into a game of who's right. Here's how to interrupt the pattern.

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- In the wake of clinicians and researchers being kicked out of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) meeting here, at least two of the organization's leaders have resigned. President-Elect Jennifer Green, MD...

(MedPage Today) -- Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination during pregnancy was effective at preventing infants from being hospitalized with RSV-associated acute respiratory illness (ARI) in a real-world setting, according to a retrospective...

It'll also boost your confidence. Here's how. The post This Yoga Pose is a Master Class in Strengthening Your Arms and Core appeared first on Yoga Journal.

Join the event using this Zoom link. The post Advanced Practice Grand Rounds, ‘Functional Neurological Disorder: History, Myths and New Treatment Paradigms,’ is June 16 appeared first on Vanderbilt Health News.

Personal Perspective: Two letters—“AI”—often instill fear and anxiety. In our serpentine journey, many of us tend to want to grasp what is real, not artificial.

Here’s how to finally find relief. The post Nagging Lower Back Pain Won’t Stop? This 10-Minute Yoga Practice Can Help. appeared first on Yoga Journal.

We often repeat relationship patterns shaped in childhood, which, for some, might mean repeating the cycle of dysfunction.

(MedPage Today) -- While ingestion of foreign bodies is far more common in children, adults have their share of incidents. Take this case of a 40-year-old man who, after questioning by clinicians, revealed what he'd swallowed while drinking with...

See how the anxious mind thrives under pressure, using the chemistry of crisis to spark unmatched strategic innovation.

(MedPage Today) -- A ProPublica investigation published last month documented something troubling: parents across the country are declining a simple vitamin K shot for their newborns, and some of those babies are dying of preventable hemorrhages...

Personal Perspective: Neglect is often equated with cruelty. But sometimes it grows from love, sacrifice, and survival. The wounds deserve to be understood.

(MedPage Today) -- NEW ORLEANS -- Injections of an ultra-long-acting investigational GLP-1 agonist led to significant weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, with reductions continuing after a switch to once-monthly dosing, according...

Every year, thousands of Veterans leave military service and enter what researchers call the "deadly gap." What makes this period so dangerous?