Ever considered getting a tattoo or naval piercings? In this week’s Ashe About Your Health, Dr. David Baron talks about body art and its effects on the skin and what individuals should consider before going in for the permanent ink.

Traveling abroad this summer? On this week’s Ashe About Your Health, learn about the precautionary health measures one must take before boarding the plane. Dr. David Baron offers traveling tips to prevent disease overseas, listing the appropriate vaccinations and antibiotics to bring when traveling and outlining the health and safety concerns from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble! Temptation invades the Hill in a sugary, liquified form otherwise known as soda. Dr. David Baron and radio reporter Esther Lee discuss the negative effects of drinking too much soda and if substitutes, such as ginger ale or sparkling water, actually work.

Relationship stress, whether it’s romantic, work-related or with family, can be detrimental to an individual’s health. Misunderstandings with significant others, long-distance dating and breakups can result in poor health habits that can ultimately affect the people around us. 

How important is it to know your family’s medical history? And to what degree? Dr. David Baron talks about following patterns of heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes among first-degree relatives and how understanding family medical history will help track which diseases individuals have a tendency to inherit.

According to Dr. Baron, emotional health is crucial to maintaining your physical health. He talks about how stress hormones can disrupt your body and cause migraines and irritable bowels.

Whether’s it’s worry about relationships, academics or finances, stress is something we encounter every day as college students. However, how do we know that stress is adversely affecting our health, and when How can we distinguish legitimate fatigue from just a lack of sleep.

Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are common forms of eating disorders. Dr. David Baron describes how the rates of eating disorders increase in college and how to recognize if someone has symptoms.

Ever suffer back pain after a long day of sitting, slouching and studying over that final paper? Or experience soreness in your body from a car accident?

What are sun spots? Are they harmful? How do you get rid of them? As students who live in sunny California, we might be prone to asking these questions concerning our skin.