Health
Could an afternoon nap help us cope with hotter temperatures? It's worked for our First Nations people
When it's hot outside, it's safer to head for air-conditioned shelter—right?
Aug 8, 2023
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Ask the Pediatrician: How to choose an insect repellent for your child
Warmer weather means more chances for kids to go outside to play, hike and enjoy the fresh air with family and friends. Warmer weather also means preventing insect bites.
Aug 7, 2023
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Health
As the climate changes, how doctors treat patients, and medical program curricula, are evolving
In the 1990s, two hurricanes devastated Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean, wiping entire communities off the map and killing dozens of people. "Everything was just decimated," Malama Tafuna'i, a primary care physician in Apia, ...
Aug 3, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Q&A: How to tell if symptoms are due to allergies, the common cold, the flu, or COVID-19
Spring and summer have a lot to offer—warmer weather, pretty flowers, and relaxing vacations. For some people, however, they also bring on the dreaded seasonal allergies and the sneezing and sniffling that go with them.
Aug 2, 2023
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Health
On Nutrition: Beat the heat
We've been lucky with more rain and cooler weather this summer. My friend Terry in Arizona has not been as fortunate.
Jul 28, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Body temperature identified as a major risk factor for gut issues during exercise in hot weather
Australians playing sports or working in physical jobs for extended periods in hot weather or environments risk gut damage and blood poisoning that may lead to serious illness.
Jul 28, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How we can better manage mental health impacts of bushfires
With an El Niño summer promising hotter and drier conditions for much of Australia, we must rethink how we measure the impact bushfires and other extreme weather events have on our mental health and well-being, according ...
Jul 28, 2023
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Health
Managing migraines in the summer
Severe weather conditions are enough to give anyone a headache, but temperature fluctuations are even more problematic for migraine sufferers.
Jul 27, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
In mental health settings, practitioners see more eco-anxiety among patients
Increasingly, mental health practitioners like Karen Magruder of The University of Texas at Arlington are seeing a phenomenon in their clinical settings that isn't well-described in the research literature.
Jul 25, 2023
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Cardiology
Risk of fatal heart attack may double in heat waves, high fine particulate pollution days
The combination of soaring heat and smothering fine particulate pollution may double the risk of heart attack death, according to a new study of more than 202,000 heart attack deaths in China. The study published today in ...
Jul 24, 2023
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