Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Overeating during the holidays is bad for your kidneys

Given all of the delicious foods that are served during holiday meals, many people find it hard to resist eating more than they usually would. But what you may not think about is what all of that extra food is doing to your ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Advice for displaced persons during the holiday season

The holiday season is a time to give back, and that is especially important to remember this year due to the impacts of Hurricane Harvey. Although many people are back in their homes, others are still displaced. One Baylor ...

Health

Why holidays can make you sick—examining pre-holiday stress

With summer underway and school holidays around the corner, a Portsmouth academic is researching why people get stressed before they go on holiday. Liz Sharples, lecturer in travel and tourism, says that although we look ...

Health

What you need to know to keep tabs on your sugar intake

The consumption of sugar and its effects on health has been in the headlines in many countries around the world again as countries from the UK to South Africa debate a sugar tax. The Conversation Africa's health editor Candice ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Single? Here are six ways to beat the holiday blues

If you are single this holiday season, you may not have a plus-one for that New Year's party, but Florida International University psychologist Lisa Arango says that shouldn't stop the fun. She provides some tips on how singles ...

Medical research

Blood banks face seasonal shortages, new screening rules

(HealthDay)—There's typically a shortage of both blood and platelets during the holiday season. But, tighter testing for a rare complication of transfusions makes the need for platelets even more urgent, experts at UT Southwestern ...

Cardiology

Head off 'holiday heart syndrome'

(HealthDay)—Overindulging over the holidays can take a toll on the heart, according to experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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