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Jan

2023

Melatonin Searches Spike Every Winter

SleepFoundation.org, January 4, 2023

Melatonin web searches on Google increased 36% from December 2021 to January 2022, as they have the past few winters.
Google searches for “sleep aid” also hit a five-year peak in January 2022.
West Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi are the states with the highest relative search volume for melatonin.

Melatonin’s popularity has grown tremendously in recent years. Google searches for the term “melatonin” have jumped each of the past five winters, peaking each January. According to Google Trends, melatonin searches grew 36% from late December 2021 to early January 2022, spiking again at the end of January. Read More >

Dec

2022

Dr. Shawn Torres

UCSF Health, December 5 2022.

Dr. Shawn Torres is a primary care doctor with expertise in preventing, diagnosing and treating chronic disorders. She has a special interest in relieving chronic conditions through lifestyle changes. Her approach is to see her patients as whole people, taking their physical, mental and social health into account while working to understand and address any illness. Read More >

Nov

2021

Pain Management Services

UPMC Ireland, November 8, 2021.

UPMC’s pain management specialists can help you manage pain, whether it’s acute or chronic. Acute pain comes on suddenly and is often from a specific injury or condition. Chronic pain is daily pain lasting at least three months, according to the International Association for the Study of Pain. Most acute pain resolves quickly with standard therapies and the passage of time. But untreated acute pain can sometimes evolve into or cause chronic pain conditions. Chronic pain, typically, is pain that hasn’t responded to healing or standard therapies. Pain comes from many conditions — an injury, a surgery, or a health problem such as low back pain or cancer. Uncontrolled long-term pain can have a chronic impact on quality of life. Pain management and treatment is an important component of the services UPMC provides to its patients.

Specialists at UPMC Aut Even Hospital, UPMC Kildare Hospital, and UPMC Whitfield Hospital may be able to help reduce your pain with proven treatments. Our experts can diagnose your pain and assign you a tailored treatment plan. Read More >

Jun

2021

Cancer symptoms women shouldn’t ignore

Cancer Treatment Centers of America, June 10 2021.

If you have a uterus, cervix, ovaries, vagina and/or vulva, you may experience occasional pain, discomfort and discharge. But some of these symptoms—especially when they’re new, persistent (lasting longer than a couple of weeks) or keep getting worse—may be signs you should get checked out by your doctor. They may be warning signs of a cancer of the reproductive system, which may be even more concerning if you have a family history of gynecologic cancers or other risk factors. Read More >

Jun

2021

Mohs surgery

Cancer Treatment Centers of America, June 7, 2021.

Mohs surgery (also known as Mohs micrographic surgery, MMS or Mohs) is a type of outpatient surgical procedure used to treat multiple types of skin cancer. During the procedure, the surgeon removes a layer of tissue from the cancerous region and examines it under a microscope to look for remaining cancer cells that were not removed during the procedure. If cells are detected, the surgeon will remove another layer of tissue, and so on, until no more cancer cells have been detected.

Dr. Frederic Mohs developed the surgery as a medical student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1930s, and it’s been considered an effective treatment option for keratoses (precancerous lesions), early-stage melanomas and carcinomas. Read More >

Dec

2020

Metabolic Health & Menopause: What is the Link Between Sugar and Hot Flashes?

Levels Blog, December 2 2020.

A rolling heat spreads uncontrollably over your skin. Your heart beats faster. Your skin flushes hot and red, you start sweating through your clothes, and you feel confused, irritable. A hot flash has taken over your body, and all you want to do is find somewhere cool to wait it out.

Almost 80% of people undergoing natural menopause have hot flashes, and about 30% report frequent or severe symptoms. These are called vasomotor episodes (because they’re related to constriction and dilation of the blood vessels) and researchers attribute them to ovarian changes in early menopause that cause spikes and dips in how much estrogen the body produces. So what is the relationship between blood sugar and hot flashes, and does elevated blood sugar cause hot flashes? Read More >