Over the past couple of decades, we’ve all heard many reports about the dangers of using too many anti-biotics. The warning is usually associated with the antibiotics becoming less effective due to the so-called evolution of what the antibiotics are designed to treat. I say so-called evolution because it’s NOT evolution at all. It’s more
Pain is often misunderstood and rarely tolerated. To begin with, the nerves that run throughout our bodies were not just designed to control every other body part including muscle actions, organ functioning, glandular functions and more. Everything in our body is controlled through signals sent by the brain through nerves. Nerves serve another very important
When I was a teenager back in the 1960s, I saved up enough money to get contact lenses as I hated wearing glasses. I was outdoors and active a lot in the Arizona heat and when I sweat, it was near impossible to keep my glasses on or from sweating onto the lenses, making it
Tens of thousands of Americans take the blood thinner Apixaban, more commonly known by the brand name Eliquis. People who take Eliquis do so because of various problems that lead to dangerous blood clots. In September, my daughter had surgery to remove a brain tumor. Less than a week later, she noticed that her legs
I’ve written many times about the importance and dangers of breast cancer and how devastating it is to so many women. A one time death sentence, breast cancer is becoming more survivable every year. For years, breast cancer resulted in disfiguring surgeries to remove the breast(s). Not only was this surgery so difficult to undergo,
This Christmas holiday season set a record with around 115,600,000 Americans traveling either on the roads, train, bus, and airlines. This is nearly a 4% increase over last year’s record holiday travelers. On our local news this past Friday, the only traffic issue anywhere in the area was the freeway exit to the airport. Traffic
I was told many years ago that a decent person never discusses sex in mixed company and for many years, that was sound advice. While being proper and considerate has its virtues, the lack of discussion and knowledge can be quite dangerous. Those days of being prim and proper changed in the 1960s with the
Everywhere you go at this time of year, you see signs, cards and hear songs about it being a time of joy. We sing songs like Joy To The World and we wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Christmas is billed as a time of rejoicing, merriment and celebration. One would think that everyone is happy
Leaders of the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the nation, announced on Friday a plan that would formally split the church after years of division over same-sex marriage. Under the plan, which would sunder a denomination with 13 million members worldwide, a new “traditionalist Methodist” denomination would be created, and would continue
If your heart feels like it’s doing something out of the ordinary, you might find yourself frantically Googling to figure out what’s going on. Chances are, you’re experiencing what’s commonly known as “heart palpitations,” which is a catchall term for feeling like your heart is acting weird. Seriously. Your heart beats because it has the
