Sonya Collins
Health and Medical Journalist at Freelance
Independent journalist covering health, medicine and science. #FightforFreelancers #IRSnotABC
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1 week ago |
healthcentral.com | Sonya Collins
Researchers at Mount Sinai have identified changes in the immune system that may sound the alarm about the coming onset of Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes painful gastrointestinal (GI) cramping and sometimes permanent damage to the GI tract. The discovery could point to new strategies for treatment and ultimately, even prevention of the disease.
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2 weeks ago |
aarp.org | Sonya Collins
Stocksy Facebook Twitter LinkedIn “Exercise is one of the most powerful ways to change someone’s course with Parkinson’s,” says Jori Fleisher, M.D., a movement disorder specialist and associate professor of neurological sciences at Rush University in Chicago. “Even if you are a never-exerciser, that’s OK.
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3 weeks ago |
healthcentral.com | Sonya Collins
More than half of people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—meaning, either Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis (UC)—have an additional autoimmune disease or other inflammatory symptoms (called extraintestinal manifestations) outside their gut, according to research. For nearly a quarter of people with IBD, that other autoimmune disease is spondyloarthritis (SpA), an umbrella term for several types of arthritis that affect the spine.
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1 month ago |
brnw.ch | Sonya Collins
We live in a culture that often demands long hours spent sitting in cars and at desks working at computers. It’s a recipe for poor posture and chronic back pain. It’s no wonder backaches—typically in the lower back—are widely considered the most common form of pain in the United States. has shown that more than a quarter of adults have low back pain, for a variety of reasons, at any given time. Breaking that cycle takes intention.
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2 months ago |
yalemedicine.org | Sonya Collins
If you often experience a stinging, burning, or scratchy feeling in your eyes, chances are you have chronic dry eye. It affects an estimated one in 10 U.S. adults—and research shows that this condition is on the rise. While experts believe that age and hormone changes are among the most common causes of chronic dry eye, our increasing reliance on smartphones, computers, and other screen-based technologies may explain the recent increase in cases.
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