Stress LESS through Mindful Living®
Infectious diseases have been cause for great concern among travelers recently. A few weeks ago the National Park Service advised recent Yosemite National Park visitors to seek medical attention. Eight visitors have been diagnosed with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. Tragically three people have died from the virus and it has caused many travelers to take extra…
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As medical research continues to advance more and more mysterious conditions are being discovered. There are two curious conditions that have recently received media attention and impact the social lives of millions of people around the world. They are commonly known as face blindness and voice blindness. What is Face Blindness? Prosopagnosia, or face blindness,…
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High school student and basketball star, Maggie Meier, has come a long way in just a few years. In late February, she was recognized on Senior Night at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. If you watched Meier play as part of the starting lineup you would have never guessed that three…
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Dr. Larry Dorr is an orthopedic surgeon who founded Operation Walk. Dr. Dorr began Operation Walk in Moscow where he was teaching Russian physicians how to do knee replacement surgery and total hip replacements in 1994. He became very concerned about the vast number of people living in severe pain and suffering who needed this…
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The holiday season is upon us and that means stress. If you find yourself constantly fighting the urge to smoke, well, get moving. Fortunately, we have new research from the U.K. that indicates exercise will help you get through those nicotine cravings. It’s the cravings that get you, the nervous jitters and the empty hands…
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I attended a parent meeting with the principal of my sons’ school the other day. He was focusing on the pressures that high school students feel when it comes to grades. “If I hear a kid asking how they can get their grade from an 88 to a 90, I tell them that they’re asking…
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Researchers from the Divisions of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have found in a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study, that melatonin, taken orally during non-typical sleep times, significantly improves an individual’s ability to sleep. This finding is particularly important for rotating or night-shift workers, travelers with jet lag and individuals…
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