We hear a lot about breast cancer but how much do we really know that explains what we hear? Do you know the different types of breast cancer or what the different stages really mean? According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is broken down into 2 main categories – in situ and invasive.
For the past couple of years, there has been an abundance of advertisements for a supplement called Prevagen. In their advertisements and on their website, they claim: “Research on Prevagen’s Main Ingredient” “Some age related issues may be unwanted, such as the normal memory loss associated with aging. The main ingredient in Prevagen, apoaequorin, was
Over the past couple of decades, the incidence of autism has increased at a dramatic rate. According to Autism Speaks who used statistics from the CDC, the rate of children with autism was only 1 in 166 children back in 2004. In 2006, it was 1 in 150. In 2008 it was 1 in 125.
Once we reach 50, our doctors begin urging us to get screened for colon cancer. After all, it is one of the more common forms of cancer and one of the more curable forms of cancer. According to the American Cancer Society: “Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in
When I was in college back in the 1970’s, I had to take a computer programming course for part of my general studies requirement for my degree. At the time, there were no home computers and many computers were programmed via punch cards. The course was in Fortran IV and we learned how to write
If you need a new hip or knee, take heart: The vast majority of these joint replacements last decades, new research shows. The conclusion stems from an exhaustive review of several hundred thousand joint replacements in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. The researchers followed nearly 216,000 hip replacement patients for 15 years.
When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was
When people are in a hurry to lose weight, they often turn to fad diets that limit entire food groups. Studies suggest the tactic can help dieters shave off extra pounds in the short-term. But then it backfires, sending people back where they began on the scale or locked in a vicious cycle of gaining
It was recently reported that there could be as many as 5 million migrants traveling in caravans from Latin American countries to the United States. Additionally, over 40 million Latin Americans have expressed the desire to come to the US, and it is presumed that very few of them will do so legally. We hear
Every year we are told to get our flu shot or flu vaccine to help us not to catch whatever strain may be around. However, there is a two-fold problem with flu shots. First, there are usually up to half a dozen different strains of flu each year, sometimes even more strains, so deciding on
