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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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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The thymus gland, part of the endocrine system, is made up of loosely related cells, tissues and organs. When all these elements come together and are in sync it is called homeostasis otherwise described as the internal stability between all cells, organs and tissues. It is the key to regulated metabolic functioning. And metabolic functioning [...]

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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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“No! You can’t go swimming for an hour.” How many of us heard our mothers say this and at the same time were told the reason was because we would get stomach cramps if we swam too soon after eating? Soon enough a child figures out the truth. Somewhere outside the purview of parents, grandparents [...]

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Grete Waitz was a Norwegian marathon runner who came into prominence in the 1980s. She passed away this past April 2011 at the age of 58 from cancer. Grete was an immensely talented runner whose parents had difficulty accepting her running athleticism as a profession. Against all odds, she broke new ground for herself and [...]

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