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For many, breath­ing requires lit­tle effort or thought. For some, how­ev­er, stress and anx­i­ety can lead to short, rapid breath­ing which can wors­en these symp­toms. A great way to avoid feel­ings of stress, anx­i­ety and short­ness of breath is to con­scious­ly focus on the breaths you take each day.

Every­one expe­ri­ences stom­ach pain at var­i­ous times through­out their life. Stom­ach pain can occur in a vari­ety of loca­tions – it may be felt in a spe­cif­ic, iso­lat­ed area or may affect your entire abdomen. Stom­ach pain doesn’t always feel the same either. Some­times it can feel like a dull ache, while oth­er times you may expe­ri­ence cramp­ing and/​or sharp gas-like pains. It can devel­op due to a vari­ety rea­sons, and depend­ing on the cause, may require dif­fer­ent treat­ment. All of these vari­ables can make it chal­leng­ing to deter­mine what’s caus­ing your stom­ach pain. To help, gas­troen­terol­o­gist, Nisha Shah, MD, dis­cuss­es sev­er­al com­mon cul­prits and tips to help you tell them apart.

Advanced car­diac imag­ing is the foun­da­tion for dis­cov­er­ing accu­rate and ear­ly diag­no­sis. Through pre­cise imag­ing, car­di­ol­o­gists are able to iden­ti­fy your heart con­di­tion and cre­ate an effec­tive treat­ment plan for your diag­no­sis. The fol­low­ing imag­ing tech­niques have become some of the most effec­tive meth­ods for iden­ti­fy­ing heart disease.

Most of us have heard the term ​“pelvic floor”, but may not know what the pelvic floor actu­al­ly does. Learn about the func­tions of your pelvic floor and what exer­cis­es you can do to strength­en your muscles. 

Lifestyle refers to the way you live your life includ­ing your dai­ly habits, activ­i­ties you par­tic­i­pate in and dietary choic­es. Under­stand­ing your food crav­ings can pro­vide valu­able insight and allow you to make changes to improve your over­all health.

HPV is the most com­mon sex­u­al­ly trans­mit­ted infec­tion, affect­ing near­ly 14 mil­lion adults and teens each year. Due to its promi­nence, the FDA has now approved the HPV vac­cine for indi­vid­u­als aged 9 – 45, mean­ing adults and chil­dren can be pro­tect­ed from the virus by receiv­ing the HPV vaccine.

Your skin is one of the most impor­tant (and largest) organs in your body. Just like your heart, eyes, or kid­neys, it’s impor­tant to treat your skin well. Below are a few facts about your skin to help jump start your healthy skin lifestyle.

A cataract is a cloud­ing of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are relat­ed to aging. Cataracts are very com­mon in old­er peo­ple. By age 80, more than half of all Amer­i­cans either have a cataract or have had cataract surgery.

You’ve fol­lowed your physician’s rec­om­men­da­tion and had your year­ly screen­ing mam­mo­gram per­formed, but then you get called back for addi­tion­al imag­ing. Nat­u­ral­ly your ini­tial reac­tion caus­es your blood pres­sure to spike…this is a test that detects breast can­cer after all. How­ev­er, only 10% of women called back for more tests are found to have breast can­cer accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety. Learn more about call-backs and why it might not nec­es­sar­i­ly be cancer.

Dual Ener­gy X‑ray Absorp­tiom­e­try (DEXA), also known as Bone Den­si­ty test­ing, is used to diag­nose osteo­poro­sis and/​or osteope­nia. This scan uti­lizes very low dose radi­a­tion to exam­ine the den­si­ty of the bone tis­sue to deter­mine the effects of osteo­poro­sis and assess the risk for poten­tial fractures.