A lot of people are under the assumption that if your blood pressure is high, your cholesterol also must be high. Is there any truth to this statement? Or is it possible for you to have one of these health problems without the other? Here, we’ll take a closer look at whether or not high ...
Last September, I had to have a hysterectomy. I had been living with severe pelvic pain for years, but the pain had started to get worse, traveling down my right leg, sharp stabbing pains in my lower right abdomen, child labor type cramping, and nagging lower back pain. Some months I would have trouble standing ...
It was the middle of February when Dana K. Hols shared with me, “Yesterday was National Organ Donor Day. If you have not registered, please do it now. It only takes a couple of minutes. If you are not sure you think donation is in your belief system, please at least take a few minutes ...
I could not put down Marya Hornbacher’s memoir. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia was a book that was difficult to put down and difficult to tear my eyes from. Marya’s (pronounced Mar-Ya, not like Maria) words burned my eyes and made it hard to go to work. At times, ironically, the memoir was ...
If your twitching tongue is driving you mad with anxiety and fear of bulbar onset ALS,then you need to know how to rule out bulbar onset ALS, which is diagnosed in only about 600 people every year in the U.S. However, for some panicky individuals, this number is no reassurance if their tongue is twitching, ...
Gastroparesis is a condition in which the walls of the stomach become partially paralyzed. Normally the stomach works to mix and propel food through the digestive tract without our ever having to think about it. The only time we really have to think about the functioning of our stomachs is when something has gone wrong ...
After being hesitant to try to become pregnant for the first time, Morgan, 33, was surprised at how well she felt two thirds of the way to her delivery date. She watched her weight, got plenty of rest and managed to work in the office in the morning and at home each weekday afternoon. When ...
Bisphosphanates are a group of drugs commonly used to treat osteoporosis; they include Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva. In 2003 reports began to surface of jaw necrosis occurring in patients being treated with Bisphosphanates. Osteonecrosis is the infection and subsequent break down of bone, and jaw necrosis is osteonecrosis of the jaw. Patients report a numbness ...
There has often been confusion related the condition called ringworm because it has nothing to do with a worm at all. It is called “ringworm” because the fungal infection for which it is named appears on the skin as a round, worm-like circle, or ring. There are different names for the umbrella infection ringworm depending ...
This is a look at some of the most popular female celebrities that could be considered to have large noses (what constitutes “large noses” is a matter of opinion, of course). While it seems that nose jobs are fairly common in Hollywood (a “did she or didn’t she” subject that fans love to debate), the ...
