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Care and management: Walking in your foot or leg cast; Itching skin; Cast odor; How to keep your cast or splint dry; Pain management

In this blog post, Andrea Sears conducts a further analysis of the results of a "returned misisonary" survey, examining how family factors influence missionary attrition. 

By: A...

Lost for words while visiting a Dutch-speaking doctor? Don't worry; consult this extensive list of Dutch medical terms next time you visit a clinic.

By: Expatica

Leaving is hard on stayers. Here are 10 tips for staying well.

For those of you who participated in or have been following the missionary attrition study from last fall, this is the post that you have been waiting for. It is time for some initial results!

There are at least five benefits of taking time off and being away. I’m talking about the wonderful deposits we place into our souls when we take a vacation. I’m returning from four weeks off of wo...

Introduction: Links between childhood residential mobility and multiple adverse outcomes through to maturity, and effect modification of these associations by familial SES, are incompletely underst...

A new study found that taking naps may help your brain process information it receives unconsciously. Why naps are good, how long is best, and what healthy habits it can indicate or point to proble...

Did you know that negative emotions can adversely affect your health? Depression, anger, guilt, condemnation, low self-esteem-these are only a few of the lethal toxins that threaten body and spirit...

Researchers have found that the damage to DNA caused by the malaria parasite in cells increases the risk of those cells turning into cancerous cells.

Article by Thandeka Moyo

World life expectancy has one of the largest global health and life expectancy databases in the world. Explore it through thousands of pages of Maps, Charts and feature stories. Compare your c...

When two cultural backgrounds come together, the result can be a deeper and richer relationship. But potential obstacles need to be clearly identified and frankly addressed before moving ahead.