Avoiding Illness And Food Poisoning While Preparing Meals

The first step in preparing food begins in the grocery store.  Nowadays, there are disinfecting wipes available in a dispenser as soon as you go to get a grocery cart.  It’s a good idea to wipe the cart and your hands.  The next step is the actual grocery shopping.  Keep raw meat away from produce or ready-to-eat foods in your cart.  What if you bring your own bag?  Reusable

Surgery Remnants Left In Tom Hadrys' Abdominal Cavity

There have been cases of various items being left behind in a person’s body after surgery.  But often it’s a story about someone feeling something different that alerts them to a problem or perhaps an X-ray that shows something that isn’t supposed to be there.  But for Tom Hadrys in the UK, he found out quite differently that something was amiss.

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Wendy Hammers Uses Humor To Fight Pancreatic Cancer

Wendy Hammers is a woman who has embraced her pancreatic cancer with optimism.  Of course, it’s not easy and not everyone is in the same situation or feels positive when diagnosed with cancer.  But Wendy decided to use a positive mindset to work her way through chemotherapy, surgery and all of the hardships she faced during her cancer treatment at UCLA.

Counterfeit medicine is big business for a lot of people looking to take advantage of those who need medication.  More and more people look online for medication and that can be dangerous.  If you need prescription medicine, it should come from a legitimate pharmacy.  That means that it should comply with U.S. pharmacy laws and practice standards. 

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How Common Is Prostate Cancer?

Worldwide, prostate cancer is the 2nd most frequent cancer and it’s the 5th leading cause of death from cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.  Prostate cancer develops when abnormal cells form and grow in the prostate gland.  Prostate cancer can spread to nearby organs and tissues or other parts of the body. 

Risk factors for cancer include older

Banning Lyon: Locked In A Psychiatric Hospital

Banning Lyon was 15 years old when he was locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Texas for close to a year.  His crime?  According to his school counselor, he was depressed and at risk for suicide. That was news to Banning Lyon who said he didn’t feel depressed. The school counselor convinced his mother that he needed to be in a psychiatric hospital.  And his mother

Living With Endometriosis

Endometriosis is a relatively common condition in women.  It occurs when tissue similar to the endometrial lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus.  It can cause severe and chronic pelvic pain, infertility, painful periods, irregular periods and fatigue. However, symptoms vary and it can sometimes be hard to detect. It is often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. It affe

Knee Cartilage Repair: CartiHeal Agili-C Implant

Many doctors are intrigued about the CartiHeal Agili-C implant.  It is a cartilage repair implant designed to repair damaged cartilage and bone in the knee and it is a new option available to orthopedic surgeons. It was FDA approved in March 2022. 

So what is cartilage?  Articular cartilage is smooth, white connecti

Why Megan Espinoza's Death Was Preventable

Megan Espinoza was a beautiful kindergarten teacher, 36 years old, who had a loving family when she went into surgery for breast augmentation.  Her family, which included her husband and two children, thought they would see her shortly.  Her parents also thought they would see her shortly.  But due to a cosmetic surgeon who refused to call 911 and get emergency help,

The Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative

Mary Tyler Moore was a beloved actress who starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show and her own show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show among many other entertainment endeavors. She and her then husband, Grant Tinker formed the MTM production company which launched her own show.  The show won 29 Emmy awards, 4 of which went to Mary Tyler Moore.  She also won a Tony Award and she was nomi