Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Lung Cancer Expected to Nearly Double by 2050. Globally, lung cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis and the leading cause of cancer-related death. Despite efforts to promote smoking cessation and reduce air pollution, experts predict the number of new lung cancer cases diagnosed in 2050 will jump to 4.62 million from 2.48 million ...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Secondhand Smoke May Raise Multiple Sclerosis Risk. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system in which the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord resulting in symptoms such as numbness, tingling, mood changes, memory problems, pain, fatigue, blindness, and paralysis. Brain imaging of children who carr...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: Some HRT Pills Pose Cardiovascular Risks. New research suggests that women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications such as estrogen or progestin have a 21% elevated risk for heart disease and a 61% increased risk for stroke. Additionally, postmenopausal women taking tibolone have a 46% greater risk for heart disease, and t...

Courtesy of: Your Rio Vista Chiropractor Dr. Joseph T. Megna Health Alert: The Heart Has Its Own Nervous System. Challenging the notion that the heart is solely governed by the autonomic nervous system, researchers from the Karolinska Institute have discovered that the heart possesses its own internal nervous system capable of independently regulating its rhythm. These findings could pave the way for new appr...