Five minutes into your dinner party, your dog meanders in to greet your guests. Seconds after he enters the room, he plops down and scoots his boot for about 2 […]
Charleston Health Articles
‘Cycle Sync’ And Feel Better
Many internet trends are quite fleeting, even for their strongest supporters, but one trend that helps women align lifestyle choices with the various phases of their menstrual cycle could be […]
Beloved Pet Helps Owner Beat Odds
Primary angiitis of the central nervous system is a rare and possibly fatal inflammatory disease that affects a person’s brain and spinal cord. According to the National Institutes of Health, […]
TikTok Wellness Trends
If you’ve spent a significant amount of time on TikTok and you are a reader of publications such as HealthLinks, it’s likely that you’ve come face-to-screen with the online health […]
Medical Waste Nears Crisis
Since COVID arrived early in 2020, there have been many increasing global health threats –pneumonia, streptococcus group A, lung infections, fungal pathogens and the mounting likelihood of additional pandemic viruses. […]
Men Who Battle Aging and Andropause
When women go through menopause, it’s characterized by the time in life when the woman stops having a menstrual period. Therefore, menopause is somewhat predictable and there’s an end in […]
Where Have Therapists Gone?
When the mental health profession as we know it today began taking shape in the 1950s, there came with it the hurdle of the social stigma – making families desperate […]
Truths About Men’s Depression
The statistics about men and suicides are alarming: Though men comprise 49% of the population, they account for 80% of all suicides. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed […]
Public Health Concern: Fungal Infections
In the fall of 2019, the Paris Zoological Park in France debuted a strange-looking life form: a yellowish organism with no mouth, no eyes, no stomach, no distinct shape, no […]
Berries Offer a ‘1-2 Punch’
Plump blueberries swathed in cream, a ripe blackberry just picked from the vine or fresh strawberries dressed with a light dusting of sugar sound like incredibly decadent, slightly naughty desserts. […]
Healthy Food Hits Food Deserts
Food and nutrition play a major role in our everyday health and in disease prevention, but not everyone has access to affordable, healthy sustenance. Lowcountry Street Grocery, a grassroots local […]
Eating Healthy on Tight Budget
Although inflation has been easing a bit, grocery bills are still high and sometimes eating healthy food can seem pricier than grabbing less nutritious supermarket options. Despite rising costs, you […]