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Don’t skip a beat on your heart health

Fifteen minutes of exercise a day can help prevent heart disease. This can be as simple as taking a walk, riding a bike, swimming, or even some strength training or stretching while you are watching TV.

Not only does exercise help you maintain a healthy weight and lower your blood pressure, but it also helps you reduce stress and improve your mental health.

Heart disease in women Veterans

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among all adults in the US Traditional risk factors for heart disease include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity and smoking. However, mental health conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, which are common among women veterans, can also increase the risk of heart disease.

Be sure to work with your primary care team to discuss your risk factors for heart disease, especially when coping with stress, PTSD or trauma.

Veteran

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MDMA Moves from Party Drugs Back to Therapy Tool

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Ask Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Your Health, Quicklya Scientific American podcast series!

Josh Fisherman: On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries that affect your body and your mind.

Every episode, we dive into one topic. We discuss diseases, treatments, and some controversies.

Lewis: And we demystify the medical research in ways you can use to stay healthy.

I’m Asking Lewis.

Fisherman: I’m Josh Fisherman.

Lewis: We’re Scientific American‘s senior health editors.

Fisherman: Today, we’re talking about MDMA. It’s a well-known party drug. But it is also showing real promise for treating intractable PTSD —flashbacks, depression, and other symptoms that recur long after a traumatic event. And it might help other conditions too. The medication could soon be headed for FDA approval.

Lewis: Just a quick disclaimer: MDMA is currently an illegal drug. Although we’ll be talking about its potential

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Brantford launches the Healthy Aging Passport program

Older adults in Brantford can pick up a passport that lets them travel through the city and participate in a variety of free activities, workshops and other events.

The 2023 Healthy Aging Passport, part of the Brantford Healthy Aging Community Summer Project, is valid from June 1 to Sept. 15.

As part of Brantford’s Healthy Aging Plan, the city has partnered with a number of organizations, including Brant Skills Centre, Brantford Public Library, the Grand River Council on Aging, Community Legal Clinic, Modo Yoga Brant, Victorian Order of Nurses, and Onkwehonwe Games to offer fitness classes, workshops, yoga, cooking demonstrations and other activities.

The passport aims to increase social participation and digital literacy, promote health and wellness, provide community connections and highlight new and existing programs and activities for older adults.

Copies of the Healthy Aging Passport will be released on a monthly basis. The June

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Swimming and skin: What to know if a child has eczema

A great warm weather activity requires a few adjustments for children who have eczema.

Three children bobbing in a pool on red, yellow and green swimming noodles; two are wearing swim googles

Swimming is a great activity for children. It’s good exercise, it’s an important safety skill, and it can be a good way to get outside and get some fresh air and sunshine.

But for children with eczema — also known as atopic dermatitis — swimming can be complicated. Here’s how parents can help.

What is eczema?

Eczema is an allergic condition of the skin. It can be triggered by allergies to things in the environment, like pollen or cats, as well as by allergies to food. It can also be triggered when chemicals or other things irritate the skin, or when the skin loses moisture, or by excessive sweating.

Swimming and sun may be helpful for eczema

Swimming in a chlorinated pool can actually be helpful for eczema. Bleach baths, which are a commonly recommended eczema

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How gut microbes shape health and battle disease

In a review article published in the journal Biomedicinesscientists have provided a detailed overview of the inter-individual variation in gut microbiota and its association with diet and health.

Review: Links between Diet, Intestinal Anaerobes, Microbial Metabolites and Health. Image Credit: POLIGOONE / ShutterstockReview: Links between Diet, Intestinal Anaerobes, Microbial Metabolites and Health. Image Credit: POLIGOONE / Shutterstock

Human gut microbiota

The human gut microbiota refers to a diverse collection of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, archaea, and viruses. Anaerobic organisms that do not require oxygen for growth and survival make up the greatest microbial biomass in the large intestine.

Although some organisms are dominant and widespread in the healthy human gut, a considerable variation in gut microbiota composition and diversity is commonly observed between individuals. The gut microbiota produces a number of primary and secondary metabolites that play a crucial role in maintaining body homeostasis, such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs).

Diet is considered a significant driver in modulating gut microbiota composition and activities,

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The secret to why exercise is so good for mental health? ‘Hope molecules’ | Devi Sridar

Exercise, in whatever form, and for however long, it just makes life feel better. I feel it myself after a walk up Arthur’s Seat here in Edinburgh, a jog around the Meadows, or a sweaty hot yoga session in Leith. The physical benefits of movement such as lowered blood pressure, reduced risk of diabetes and cancer, and healthy aging, are well-known, and we’re beginning to understand more about the mental health benefits as well.

One of the most interesting health research projects of the past decade or so has looked at how exactly exercise makes us feel good. Research shows that there appears to be a clear scientific reason, that we can see at a cellular level. When muscles contract, they secrete chemicals into the bloodstream. Among these chemicals are myokines, which have been referred to as “hope molecules”. These small proteins travel to the brain, cross the blood-brain

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Responding to critics, Sask. minister jokes hospital information is ‘hidden’ online and then gives out wrong link

Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman defended against accusations that the province isn’t transparent about hospital capacity, by reading out the website address where users can see emergency room wait times — but the link didn’t work.

Merriman read out the website link at the Saskatchewan legislature Thursday monring, after the NDP health critic, Vicki Mowat, accused the government of giving people “as little information as possible” about the state of health care.

Mowat urged Merriman to put information about hospital capacity on the Saskatchewan Health Authority website. Merriman joked the information is hiding on the internet.

“This is hidden on the internet, and I’ll read it out on the record,” Merriman responded.

Merriman read the link: www.saskatoonhealthregion.ca/news/documents/capacity

The link didn’t go anywhere useful.

The website Merriman read out takes users to a page saying, “Sorry, we couldn’t find that.”

Later in the day, a Saskatchewan government representative clarified that the

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I Don’t Have an Estate Plan…Right?

Whether or not you have a written estate plan, you do have an estate plan. The laws of the state in which you reside will make decisions about your estate if you do not have a written plan.

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If you don’t have a written estate plan, it is essential to know what the intestacy laws of your state are so that you know what will happen to your assets if you die.

Most people prefer to make their own choices about their assets than let the state decide for them.

Why should you have a written estate plan?

Even if you do not have significant assets, you might want documents in place to protect your wishes, in the event you

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Is Your Compliance Plan Protecting You?

Healthcare compliance plans are essential to ensure your practice is following the law. Your compliance plan can keep your practice out of trouble.

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A recent enforcement action highlights the need for an effective and updated compliance plan.

A physician in Arkansas has been sentenced to 102 months of prison time and to pay over $4.63 million in restitution. Following release from prison, he will have three (3) years of supervised release. He also was fined $2,200 for a special assessment.

The physician was found guilty of signing prescriptions for patients that he did not know or treat.

The physician was then found guilty of lying about his actions to the FBI. He claimed he only signed prescriptions for those he

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Researchers discover new neurological conditions characterized by issues with motor coordination and speech

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new neurological condition characterized by issues with motor coordination and speech. They report their findings in npj Genomic Medicine.

Scientists from NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) identified three children with the condition, two siblings and an unrelated child. The three children all had issues with motor coordination and speech, and one child had abnormalities in the cerebellum, the part of the brain involved in complex movement among other functions. Plus, the children all had mutations in both copies of the ATG4D gene.

ATG4D aids in the cellular housekeeping process called autophagy, which cells use to break down and recycle damaged proteins and other defective pieces of the cells to stay healthy. Autophagy is a fundamental process used by cells throughout the body, but neurons are particularly dependent on autophagy for survival. However, little

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