Dana Walrath used graphic medicine techniques to chronicle three years of caregiving for her mother, Alice, who was in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Tag Archives: Disease
Ask Well: Tai Chi and Heart Disease
Like other forms of physical activity, tai chi may be an effective method for helping to reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Well: Ask Well: Catching Disease From a Toilet Seat
Are toilet seats the disease transmitters they seem to be?
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Well: Is It Ordinary Memory Loss, or Alzheimer’s Disease?
Simple memory assessments are a way to get an idea of whether cognitive problems are drawing nearer.
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Well: The Weekly Health Quiz: Struck by Lightning, a Baseball Pioneer and Belly Dancer’s Disease
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
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The Weekly Health Quiz: Struck by Lightning, a Baseball Pioneer and Belly Dancer’s Disease
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
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Well: Treating Disease, and Spreading It?
In the case of Ebola, caretaking is a job of the highest risk, and doctors and nurses are innately terrible at even the basics of infection control.
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Opinion: Can Celiac Disease Affect the Brain?
Some scientists have linked gluten with neurological symptoms.
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Study Questions Fat and Heart Disease Link
A team of international scientists found no evidence that eating saturated fat, the kind found in meat, butter and cheese, increased heart attacks and other cardiac events.
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Personal Health: Kidney Disease, an Underestimated Killer
Although much is known about what puts people at risk for kidney disease, as well as how to detect and treat it, lack of awareness remains a problem.