This is a technique Sharon Epstein, a successfully shy person from Stony Brook, N.Y., has mastered. A psychiatric social worker, she says she capitalizes on two activities: “Listening in an empathetic way and writing about my beliefs and values.” (more…)
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A Drink or Two May Benefit Some Heart Patients
Thursday, April 21st, 2011A study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that light to moderate alcohol consumption could benefit patients who already had some degree of left ventricular dysfunction, or LVD. LVD means that the left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart, is weakened. (more…)
