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Health Tip: Let Kids Play

By HealthCast on September 25, 2018

Regular exercise has plenty of benefits for kids, too, the American Heart Association says.

Here’s the AHA’s list of how physical activity specifically helps children:

It helps improve a child’s sleep patterns.
It helps boost your child’s mood and energy.
It helps the child unwind from the stresses of the day.
It helps improve concentration while doing homework.
Playing with peers is a great way to forge friendships.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Let Kids Play

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