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Summertime health. You probably know all you need to know. Hydrate. Keep drinking that water on hot days and use sunscreen to block the rays of the sun’s dangerous effects that could cause skin cancer. You’d be right. Those are very important health safety issues during the summertime. But there’s much more to summer time health and it’s all just common sense. Summer is a time for swimming. Public and private pools, beaches, bays, and rivers are all are there for the cooling effect and the ...

A recent study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management reports that hospice care may prolong the lives of some terminally ill patients. Researchers selected 4,493 terminally ill patients with either congestive heart failure (CHF) or cancer of the breast, colon, lung, pancreas, or prostate. They then analyzed the difference in survival periods between those who received hospice care and those who did not. Among these patients, the mean survival was 29 days ...

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Ph.D., Holly Prigerson, Ph.D., Melissa D.A. Carlson, M.P.H., M.B.A., Emily Cherlin, M.S.W., R. Johnson-Hurzeler, R.N., M.P.H., and Stanislav V. Kasl, Ph.D. OBJECTIVE: Many terminally ill patients enroll in a hospice late in their illness, and recent data indicate decreasing lengths of hospice enrollment, yet we know little about the impact of hospice enrollment length on surviving caregivers. This is the first study the authors know of that examines the association ...