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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...