For immunocompromised people in WA, return to ‘normal’ threatens mental and physical health

Maia Williams spends much of her day combing through medical records of the dead.  As a government death investigator, her files offer the broad strokes of lives cut short by…

Can Depression Make You Sick? 8 Physical Symptoms

Depression is a mental health condition that causes sadness and low mood. We associate symptoms such as feeling down and losing interest in activities with depression, but depression can come…

Update on Advice for Physical Activity in Type 2 Diabetes

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has issued new recommendations for exercise/physical activity in people with type 2 diabetes, which update a 2010 joint ACSM/American Diabetes Association position statement.…

Multiple Sclerosis and Physical Exercise

If it weren’t for a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, Bryan Kent may never have learned to listen to his body. The triathlete and runner had been straining his body for…

Cardiometabolic risk factors, physical activity, and postmenopausal breast cancer mortality: results from the Women’s Health Initiative | BMC Women’s Health

In prior WHI reports, both higher physical activity levels [13] and fewer cardiometabolic risk factors [4] were associated with lower all-cause mortality following a breast cancer diagnosis in postmenopausal women.…

4 tips to increase your physical activity: Mercer professor

The most popular New Year’s resolution for 2022 probably comes as no surprise. Of those who made resolutions this year, just over a quarter of them pledged to lose weight…