Holistic Medicine News

(NewsUSA) - When flu season comes around every year, it's important to make sure you're protected. Flu seasons are unpredictable and can be severe. An average of 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population becomes ill with the flu each year, and more than 200,000 of these...

(NewsUSA) - Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an underhanded disease with a real knack for stealth. "PAD can be very tricky. If patients experience symptoms at all, they frequently mistake them for something else. Scarily enough, even healthcare professionals...

(NewsUSA) - Notice how many professional athletes have been sidelined lately by concussions? Experts have, and -- with the problem also affecting youth sports from soccer to bicycling to football -- they're labeling it "a national epidemic." "Not only are most...

(NewsUSA) - Most people will walk the equivalent of three times around the earth in their lifetime. That's a huge amount of wear and tear on your foot's many bones, joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles -- and, more to the point, it increases the potential that...

(NewsUSA) - The overwhelming mass of uninsured Americans is firsthand evidence that health insurance is too expensive -- as if we didn't already know. On average, middle-income families with individual coverage spend 22 percent of their income on health care. Others...

(NewsUSA) - The holiday season is when we finally spend precious time visiting family and friends, some of whom we haven't seen since last Christmas. And of course, we want to look our best. Research studies say that the first thing we notice about someone is their...

(NewsUSA) - If you saw the movie "Black Hawk Down," you already know what happened to the soldiers on that mission-gone-bad to capture Somali warlords. Eighteen of them died that day in 1993, and more than 70 others were injured. One of those hurt -- then-Navy SEAL...