Getting ready for a winter storm involves more than buying bread and milk. Protecting your family from discomfort is important, but protecting your family from danger is a priority. One real danger is carbon monoxide poisoning.
Nine months ago, on a perfect spring day in central Illinois, Eric Albers was married, and the future looked good. Three days later, Albers, 25, began fighting for his life. At one time, Albers could have faced an amputation as part of the treatment for his Ewing sarcoma bone cancer. Instead, he received a cadaver bone complete with tendons that enabled the surgical reattachment of his muscles to the transplanted donor humerus bone.
K.C. King recalls that her physician told her she was fine, even after doing some blood work. But she wasn’t. After visiting a nutritionist 14 years ago and finding that her liver function was “off the chart,” she underwent a food elimination diet and discovered she has celiac disease.
In 2007, Dr. David Dosa wrote an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine about a cat at the Steere House nursing home in Providence, R.I., who apparently had the ability to sense when a patient was going to die. The media picked up the story and almost overnight, Oscar the cat became an international phenomenon.
During warm weather, activities are typically performed outdoors where a variety of factors make each exercise a little different. This is not true of most indoor aerobic activities, at least not the way they are typically performed.
Weekly health rail, with items on an "In case of emergency" app, how to recognize a brain injury, a study on sleep and aging, and more.
A mixture of education carrots and sticks might be the right medicine to help end America’s shortage of primary care physicians, a doctor and writer says.
In elementary school, having a substitute teacher meant lots of word puzzles and a longer recess. In high school, it was time to get a jump on your homework. Everyone would walk in and say, ``Yay, a sub!''
Anne Turville knows radiation and chemotherapy killed the cancer in her daughter's ribs and lungs. But the Gahanna, Ohio, mother believes that making pottery also helped keep Sarah alive.
Children spend more time in school than any place except home, and success in school is directly linked to a child's health. Those two facts alone should mark the importance of health in our schools.
