Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on delaying health care. The transcript is also available.
More than one third of Americans report either they or a family member postponed obtaining needed health care within the past year, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll. The Kaiser poll, taken in mid-October, found 36 percent of those surveyed delayed getting needed health care compared to 29 percent last April...
Listen to the NIH Research Radio podcast to learn more about the latest research findings from the National Institutes of Health. Also check out podcasts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Library of Medicine.
You can listen to these podcasts on your computer, or you can download them to an MP3 player to listen on-the-go.
The December issue of NIH News in Health is available. Featured stories cover healthy holiday gift ideas and cold fingers and toes. Also check out the health capsules and the featured Web site.
December 1 is World AIDS Day. Check out the MedlinePlus AIDS topic page and also visit Drugs + HIV: Learn the Link from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Learn more about World AIDS Day from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Watch a live webcast of esophagus surgery on December 2 at 3:00 p.m. CST.
Also, browse through links to prerecorded webcasts of surgical procedures. These are actual procedures performed at medical centers in the United States.
Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on new exercise recommendations. The transcript is also available.
Moderate aerobic activity for two and half hours a week results in better health for adults, according to new guidelines recently released by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS report called 'Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans' also recommends that children benefit from an hour or more of medium to vigorous physical activity daily...
Filed under: Stress Reduction, Cancer Caregivers, Cancer Survivors, Cancer Pre-vivors
The review article was written by Dr. Michael Miovic and Dr. Susan Block from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Miovic and Block found that 50 percent or more of patients with advanced or terminal cancer suffer from at least one of three major disorders: adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders and depressive disorders. Medical management of cancer has improved in the last decade, but management of mental health issues has lagged, according to the authors. Studies show that depressive symptoms can even impact patients' lives even more than pain.
