Reuters reported this today… A study by the European Brain Council (EBC) said the bill for disorders such as depression, anxiety, insomnia and dementia, will rise as people live longer, making it “the number one economic challenge for European health care.” There are two parts of this to consider. The severe health warning sound telling [...]

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Strong bones are important to a fit, strong and healthy body. Osteoporosis in post-menopausal women has been the focal point of concern with an erroneous belief that men are at far less risk if at all. Astoundingly, one-quarter of hip-fracture victims are men and their one-year survival rate is considerably lower than that of women. [...]

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After two weeks of intense excitement and drama, I’m still running late. My apologies for being absent last week. Late Wednesday I had just returned from my son’s home on the hurricane riddled northeast coast. We spent two days moving everything in their backyard—plants, furniture and anything that could be sucked up by 70 mph [...]

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Jump ten or twenty years into the future—maybe much sooner. Imagine you are admiring a tattoo on an arm or dresses up someone’s shoulder. Then imagine that it is actually a heart monitor or a “built-in” cell phone that appears to be nothing more than a second skin or otherwise eye-catching tattoo. This is technology’s [...]

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Hospital care has changed in recent times and it makes me wonder if we are going backward. We have to be increasingly vigilant by making sure our surroundings are clean and free of invasive bacteria that crop up more and more in a supposedly sterile hospital environment. So what do we need to know and [...]

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WADA is the World Anti-Doping Agency that became the authoritative organization on banned drugs in Olympic competition in 1999. In 1968 the first drug use controls were instituted at the Winter Olympics, but it wasn’t the first time performance enhancing tactics were employed. Such things are as old as the first Olympics in Ancient Greece. [...]

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Kidneys are the final buffer for the body to keep its acid and alkaline conditions in balance. Kidney disease, when you finally discover it, has likely been present for many, many years. On that first trip to the bathroom in the morning is your urine a dark yellow with a pungent ammonia smell? If so, [...]

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Our government isn’t governing and people who are supposed to represent all of us keep arguing while the ship sinks. In the meantime we are all living under the threat of disability checks, social security payments or military pay not going out the first of the month. While Moody’s downgrades the United States credit standing, [...]

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If you have ever been afflicted with food poisoning, it becomes a call to wellness that resounds deep in your belly with the message shouting, “Don’t ever do this to me again!” One out of six of us will be stricken with food poisoning this year. Most of the time the symptoms will be relatively [...]

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If you have ever been afflicted with food poisoning, it becomes a call to wellness that resounds deep in your belly with the message shouting, “Don’t ever do this to me again!” One out of six of us will be stricken with food poisoning this year. Most of the time the symptoms will be relatively [...]

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