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Need to De-Stress in a Hurry? Try These Strategies to Help Relax in the Moment

Apr 23, 2024 · UHN Staff · Stress & Anxiety

Stress can sneak up on you anywhere at any time. You might be having a nice, easy-going day where everything is going right, and suddenly traffic comes to a standstill on the highway. You get bad news on the phone. Your washing machine starts making a strange sound. You remember … Read More

Is Your Doctor Right for You?

Apr 23, 2024 · Rosanne Leipzig, MD, PhD · Stress & Anxiety

One of this month’s Newsbriefs looks at a study that examined how prescribing practices differed between geriatricians and general internists. The latter typically serve as the “gatekeeper” of a person’s general health and often see people with chronic health conditions like cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. In the … Read More

Fill Your Plate with Functional Foods

Apr 23, 2024 · Kate Brophy · Stress & Anxiety

We’re all aware of what counts as good nutrition—fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats. But if you’re looking to go one step further, you may want to consider including “functional foods” in your daily diet. These are foods containing extra ingredients that are physiologically active and that extend … Read More

Ask the Experts: Medicare and Follow-Up Colonoscopy; Pericardial Effusion; Bladder Cancer

Apr 23, 2024 · UHN Staff · Stress & Anxiety

Is it true that there is a Medicare copay for follow-up colonoscopies after a positive stoolbased screening test for colorectal cancer? Medicare’s coverage for colonoscopies is a little complicated. One thing that has recently changed is coverage for the type of colonoscopy you reference. Up until the end of 2022, … Read More

Colonoscopy Is a Highly Effective Screening Test, but Should You Get One After Age 75?

Apr 23, 2024 · Kate Brophy · Stress & Anxiety

Nobody wants to think about, much less undergo, colorectal cancer screening, especially if it involves having a colonoscopy. But it’s definitely worth keeping up with routine colonoscopies, says Mount Sinai gastroenterologist Brijen J. Shah, MD. “Colonoscopy is considered the gold-standard screening test for colorectal cancer, since it checks the entire … Read More

Sharpen Your Vision with the Right Glasses

Apr 23, 2024 · Kate Brophy · Stress & Anxiety

Have you noticed that holding your newspaper farther away makes the print easier to read? If so, you likely have presbyopia, a type of visual discrepancy that sets in after about age 45. “The condition occurs when the lens—the eye’s focusing mechanism— becomes less able to change shape when you … Read More

Newsbriefs: Risky Medications, Accuracy of In-Home Colorectal Cancer Tests, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Music Benefits Brain Health

Apr 23, 2024 · Kate Brophy · Stress & Anxiety

Geriatricians Less Likely to Prescribe Risky Medications A study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society finds that geriatricians are less likely than general internists (doctors whose specialty is internal medicine) to prescribe potentially inappropriate medications (PIMS) to older adults. For the study, researchers … Read More

Calculating and Understanding Your Fracture Risk

Apr 23, 2024 · Kate Brophy · Stress & Anxiety

If you have been diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, you may be aware that the condition makes you vulnerable to fragility fractures as you age. But just what is your risk of fractures? An online tool called FRAX® can be used to clarify this, and in 2023, the tool … Read More

Multivitamin Linked with Healthy Brain

Apr 23, 2024 · UHN Staff · Stress & Anxiety

Taking a daily multivitamin may help prevent memory loss and slow cognitive aging in older adults, according to researchers. Three separate clinical trials which included more than 5,000 participants found strong evidence that taking a daily multivitamin containing more than 20 essential micronutrients for two to three years benefits brain … Read More

Ask the EN Experts May 2024

Apr 23, 2024 · Kristen N. Smith, PhD, RDN, LD · Stress & Anxiety

You’ve probably heard someone going on and on about their favorite kitchen appliance—the “instant pot.” If not, brace yourself for a life-changing (or at least time-saving) gadget that you might want to add to your own kitchen arsenal. The instant pot is a programmable electric pressure cooker, similar to a … Read More