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2 weeks ago | 
portugues.medscape.com | James Roland
close Tem certeza que quer sair? Talvez seja voltar a vestir uma calça jeans antiga ou ter energia para atividades prazerosas. Embora essas metas sejam motivadoras, é importante que os pacientes entendam que a obesidade e o sobrepeso elevam o risco de doenças graves, como as cardiovasculares, diabetes e certos tipos de câncer.
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2 weeks ago | 
mediafeed.org | James Roland
This article was reviewed by Knox Beasley, MD. If you’re experiencing a flaking, itching scalp, you may do a quick self-diagnosis of dandruff. But that flaking and itching could instead be a sign of scalp psoriasis, a more serious condition that can require a doctor’s care and prescription medications. While both are common scalp conditions affecting women and men, dandruff vs. scalp psoriasis differ in some important ways. Knowing which one you have is key to finding the right treatment.
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1 month ago | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland |Fayez Kheir
When a CT scan revealed a suspicious spot on Daniel Robinson’s lung, the 64-year-old retired high school teacher from Cape Coral, FL, wanted his doctors to act fast and figure out what was wrong. “I really didn’t care what they needed to do,” Robinson recalls.
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1 month ago | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland |Christopher J. Sayed
Even though the inflammatory skin condition hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) affects up to 1.5 million people in the United States, there has long been a scarcity of resources to help people living with the condition, their families, and even healthcare professionals who have little experience diagnosing and treating HS.
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2 months ago | 
mediafeed.org | James Roland
This article was reviewed by Knox Beasley, MD. You recognize the face staring back at you in the mirror, but you also notice a little more forehead and what seems to you like a messed up hairline. While a bald spot or thinning hair at the crown isn’t always noticeable to others — at least not at first — a receding hairline can feel hard to ignore. Fortunately, there are solutions for a bad hairline or other hair loss conditions.
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2 months ago | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland
If you have eczema, you know that even a little stress can be enough to trigger flares. “My eczema and stress response are highly linked,” says Summer Forlenza, a 32-year-old Rancho Cucamonga, CA-based family therapist. “When I get stressed, I start to get itchy. When I get itchy and I scratch, I compromise my skin barrier and the eczema cycle starts anew.” Research suggests that, for many people with eczema, stress is the single biggest trigger.
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2 months ago | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland
From the time she was a little girl, Ife Rodney, M.D., now 43 and a dermatologist from Fulton, MD, would get occasional skin rashes, often presenting as little bumps around hair follicles on different parts of her body. But it wasn’t until she was expecting her first child that she realized she had eczema. “It didn’t look like typical eczema,” she recalls of the thick dark rashes that appeared on her legs during her pregnancy.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland
Michael Russo sat with his mother many times during her chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer. He watched as the IV tube carried cancer-fighting medicine into her veins, hoping the long hours and side effects of her infusion therapy would be worth it. She survived and continues to thrive. So when his doctor recommended that Russo receive infusion therapy for his rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the 49-year-old Seattle, WA, teacher agreed… but with some trepidation.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
healthcentral.com | James Roland
As a health coach with a focus on clients who have celiac disease, Australia’s Belinda Whelan, 44, dispenses health advice every day. So when it came time for Whelan to have a colonoscopy, she didn’t hesitate to schedule this important colon cancer screening. Like everyone who has undergone the procedure, Whelan was faced with the uncomfortable, but necessary, bowel prep.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | James Roland |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
May be of interest to football fans now but is superficial and certain to date quickly. Profiles of six young quarterbacks with dazzling skills and promising futures. Roland’s roster includes one biracial, two white, and three Black elite young arrivals—Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Brock Purdy, Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, and C.J. Stroud—who played for teams all over the United States.
