By The Associated Press A listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat sandwiches and snacks has sickened at least 10 people in the U.S., and a producer is voluntarily recalling dozens of products sold to retail stores, hospitals, hotels, airports and airlines, federal officials said. The ...
Every year in the USA, we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. This year it will be celebrated on May 11, 2025. Let us again take a brief look at the history of this wonderful special national holiday to honor our USA Mothers. Our mothers certainly do so much as they give their ...
Certain diseases are more popular than others, which may sound like a strange statement, but to those in health care, this is a well-recognized phenomenon. I speak of popularity in terms of media attention, research efforts into cures, charitable organizations aiming to support this research, ...
As we enter into our great Upper Peninsula summer season, we will all soon be blessed with increased availability of healthy fresh fruits. Let me again review for you the nutritional makeup of various fruits so are aware of the amount of sugar and fiber in these fruits. I favor and recommend the very healthy fruits that are lower in sugar and higher in fiber. Check out my following list of the sugar and fiber content in many of these popular fruits. As noted below, raspberries are great with very low sugar and high fiber. Recall that all fruits contain their natural fruit sugar along ...
Life is full of hazards, be they emotional or be they physical. Depending on the location, a variety of complications can result from an injury, even one that is seemingly mild. Tweak a knee joint, or twist an ankle, and damage can occur to one of the vital structures composing these complex articulations. Being careful is wise but accidents still happen. Ankle sprains are one of the most common joints injured, occurring to the athlete and average citizen alike. Although estimates vary greatly, almost two thirds of sprains will have continued problems after the normal course of ...
My patients ask me plenty of questions. They are trying to understand their medical circumstances, and I want to offer the best of explanations. Sometimes, in order to simplify my explanations, I call upon an analogy, and to be more specific, I compare my patients to a car. Why a car and not a giraffe, apples, or oranges? Because cars break down as often as people get sick. Because cars need fixing and people need healing. Because both cars and people are complex structures the working of which is both miraculous and difficult to understand. Here are several of my car ...
