Irritable bowel syndrome has a strong connection to the mind.

More: continued here

You don’t have to be an actuary or funeral director to have noticed the striking increase in the length of many Americans’ lives. The obituaries in this or any other newspaper show a growing number of people who depart this world in their late 80s or 90s, or even at 100 or older. The fastest-growing segment of the population consists of people over 85, and by 2050 some 800,000 Americans will have celebrated their 100th birthday.

More: continued here

Getting older doesn’t have to mean getting frailer.

More: continued here

For cancer patients, one of the toughest questions can be knowing when it’s time to let go.

More: continued here

When Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly successful Starbucks chain, no financial adviser had to tell him that coffee was America’s leading beverage and caffeine its most widely used drug. The millions of customers who flock to Starbucks to order a double espresso, latte or coffee grande attest daily to his assessment of American passions. Although the company might have overestimated consumer willingness to spend up to $4 for a cup of coffee — it recentl…

More: continued here

Rheumatoid arthritis does not have to mean an end to the things you love.

More: continued here

Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans, including some 700,000 Medicare recipients, get on a treadmill not for exercise but to try to determine if their hearts are healthy. Tim Russert, the NBC journalist, had such an exam, called an exercise or treadmill stress test, six weeks before he died of a heart attack last month at age 58. His results had been deemed normal, prompting people to question how worthwhile this test could be.

More: continued here

As with any product used to excess, consumers often wonder about the health consequences of caffeine.

More: continued here

The exercise stress test has no value unless its findings are interpreted in the context of a person’s other risk factors for heart disease.

More: continued here

Medpedia Forms Online Medical Encyclopedia Site looking for … EndoNurse -20 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO - The Medpedia Project recently announced that the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine, Medpedia, will launch soon.

More: continued here