Ira Nash, MD | Physician | December 31, 2019 Our organization, like most health care providers, is working hard to improve the care we provide to our patients, while also striving to improve the lives of our physicians. All too often, a narrow view of the former can create conflict with the latter. For example,… Read More »
Health 2.0 Sep 5, 2019• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What’s WeightWatchers, now WW, doing at a health tech conference? Zoe Griffiths, Global Director of Nutrition, talks about what’s next for the company’s 4.5M members worldwide as their “wellness partner” embraces the latest trends and thinking that help make the behavior changes that lead to… Read More »
Professor Mary McCarron is author of over 100 publications on ageing. Photo: Gerry Mooney ‘That day, I vowed to try to change things’ – Trinity professor says encounter with distressed mother and son drives her work Independent.ie It was when she first trained as an intellectual disability (ID) nurse at Stewarts Hospital and later worked… Read More »
Allergy season is upon us once again. And if it seems as though your allergies are getting worse year after year, it’s not just your imagination. Pollen is a fine powder produced as part of the sexual reproductive cycle of many varieties of plants. It is also the culprit behind the seasonal allergies that one… Read More »
Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.… Read More »