WESTCHESTER, Ill. – Research has shown a strong relationship between weight and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Your neck gets thicker as you gain weight. This increases the level of fat in the back of ...

Motivate healthy choices with the Transtheoretical Model Getting patients to make behavior changes that stick can be tough. Treating the change as a process can help. One of my health heroes – James ...

One of the most groundbreaking HIV prevention strategies for HIV?negative gay and bisexual men (GBM) is a once?daily pill called pre?exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which is up to 99% effective in the ...

As many readers know, my doctoral research area was focused on health behavior change. Specifically, I was interested in finding ways to inspire groups of people to become physically active. One of ...

This study identified mediators of a Transtheoretical Model (TTM) intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among economically disadvantaged African American adolescents (N = 549).

In the last post we discussed the change process and what we know about it. Specifically, we talked about the research of James Prochaska and his colleagues and the Stages of Change model that he has ...

Making lasting changes is not easy. Regardless of whether the changes you want to make impact your personal or professional life, change takes substantial time and effort. Creating lasting change may ...

Effects of Geographic and Economic Variations on Global Cancer Burden This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2018 World Cancer Congress Abstracts. This abstract does not include a full text ...

A new year brings a lot of things and one of the first that comes to mind are New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions can be tricky; sometimes it becomes mere lip service and rarely makes it past January.