To my loyal YWN readers, Although this space is normally used for my weekly columns on health, fitness, and weight loss, I will allow myself the liberty once a year to use this space for a personal message. Hashem granted us the gift of a healthy body and expects us to do our best to take care [...]

Even though there has been a great deal of progress in fighting heart disease, still, four in ten deaths are the result of cardiovascular disease.  In addition, nearly one out of every four adults suffers with some form of cardiovascular disease.  According to the National Center for Health Statistics (USA), if all forms of CVD [...]

A small study of an experimental drug for advanced melanoma — a brutal disease that often kills within nine months — is giving rare hope to doctors and patients. For the first time, doctors say, new therapies that include the drug allow them to envision a time when they might be able to keep melanoma patients [...]

According to one estimate, there are more people in the world over the age of 65 today, than the total of all those who previously lived to this age!  And in the United States, the over-85 age group is the fastest growing segment of the population.  Experts in the field of gerontology say the primary [...]

Due to the economic downturn, more and more individuals and families are unable to avail themselves of preventative and life-saving care.  One area impacted by this is childhood immunizations. Over the past year alone, there has been a resurgence of many childhood diseases due to lack of immunizations. This is evidenced by the outbreak of mumps [...]

Due to the economic downturn, more and more individuals and families are unable to avail themselves of preventative and life-saving care.  One area impacted by this is childhood immunizations. Over the past year alone, there has been a resurgence of many childhood diseases due to lack of immunizations. This is evidenced by the outbreak of mumps [...]

Due to the economic downturn, more and more individuals and families are unable to avail themselves of preventative and life-saving care.  One area impacted by this is childhood immunizations. Over the past year alone, there has been a resurgence of many childhood diseases due to lack of immunizations. This is evidenced by the outbreak of mumps [...]

Due to the economic downturn, more and more individuals and families are unable to avail themselves of preventative and life-saving care.  One area impacted by this is childhood immunizations. Over the past year alone, there has been a resurgence of many childhood diseases due to lack of immunizations. This is evidenced by the outbreak of mumps [...]

Sitting a bit crooked at the computer when you work? Slouched over a book while you are learning? Not paying attention to exercising and stretching your lower back? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, you may be surprised to learn that you could be inhibiting the ability of the discs [...]

We are all familiar with chronic asthma, which is caused by of an inflammation in the passageways of the lungs. We also are all too familiar with the symptoms of coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and tightness in the chest. Although people who suffer from Exercise-Induced Asthma (EIA) may have many of the same symptoms [...]