Many of us prefer to ignore our painful childhood experiences, but a landmark Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kaiser study shows these adverse events are strongly related to the development of a wide range of physical and mental health problems throughout our lifetimes.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study looked at 17,000 mostly white, middle-class, college-educated adults receiving health-care services from Kaiser Permanente in San Diego.
It’s no secret that dancing is good for us. According to research, dancing provides strong cardiovascular activity, improves memory, helps with balance and coordination and boosts emotional and mental health.
I’ve been dancing since age 7, starting with ballet training and moving into training, performing, competing, choreographing and instructing in hip-hop, modern, jazz, Latin and Bollywood dance throughout my childhood, teenage and adult life.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released its annual report on tobacco use by youth, reporting an alarming 38.3 percent increase in smoking by teenagers since its last report in 2017.
This is the first reported increase in youth smoking in several years – 1.5 million children – and is attributed to vaping, or e-cigarettes, which now account for 20.8 percent of all tobacco products used by youths.
With two more trials in the pipeline, El Camino Hospital’s Dr. Ganesh Krishna and his team are making history as the first health-care professionals in California to offer a minimally invasive procedure for those struggling with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema.
In March, Krishna – medical director of the hospital’s Interventional Pulmonology Program – and his colleagues successfully treated patients with the new U.S. Food & Drug Administration-approved Zephyr Endobronchial Valve. The Zephyr is considered a major advancement in relieving hyperinflation, a common symptom those with emphysema struggle with when air becomes trapped in their lungs and prevents new air from coming in, according to Krishna.
People who suffer from sciatica are often told to stretch their hamstrings or their piriformis to relieve the tightness and get rid of pain. But certain sciatica stretches not only don’t work, they also can be quite harmful.
A client of mine, Susan, 47, had been suffering from what she believed to be hip pain for many months. Because of all the time she spends working at her desk and driving/commuting, she could literally feel her hips getting tighter and stiffer by the day.
Using her firsthand experience, Debbie Taback of Mountain View co-founded Latitude Food Allergy Care, a specialty food allergy clinic in Redwood City that aims to help children and adults through the diagnosis, potentially life-saving therapy trials and later management of the allergy.
Taback and her clinic co-founders hope to give parents what they wish they had when they were learning about their own children’s serious food allergies: reassurance that they can handle all of the situations thrown their way.
