Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
I look out my office window and see 50+ inches on snow on the ground. With no end of winter in sight. It seems almost ridiculous to think of spring right now. I’d be happy if I didn’t have to break out the snow blower this weekend. That’s would seem like a ray of springtime [...]
OK, you’ve survived Black Friday. And along the way, you ‘ve probaby got yourself exposed to a lot of pathgens in the malls. You and your teen-aged daughter probably went to see “New Moon” and sat in theater seats occupied by countless others in the prior week, with no germocidal spray applied to those seats [...]
I’ve been doing some writing for an electronic newsletter distributed by Embria Health Sciences, which also supports this blog. The topic for the holiday season newsletter is none other than…summer allergies. Kinda hard getting my hay fever and balmy weather groove on this time of year. But the ingenious thing about it is, talking about [...]
The next-gen iPhone. The new Droid. The technology continues to bedazzle. We all know how the cell phone has evolved. First it was a clunky box you installed in the trunk of your car, wired to a hand set holstered in your center console. You could only use the phone to make and receive phone [...]
I recently joined WEGO Health, an online health community that appears to have lot of activity. It doesn’t have the bulk numbers that other places like WebMD has (who does??), but it is growing and is generating a lot of original discussion. My friending activity has produced several dozen cohorts in just a few weeks.
Recently, [...]
What better than a nursing education blog to offer up 100 tips on staying healthy during the cold/flu season. They all make sense, but I pity the soul who tries to do them all. Group just a few of these tips together: “#63 Don’t get too close: If you know someone is sick, avoid [...]
Beta glucans are highly refined carbohydrates known as polysaccharides found in the cell walls of yeast and in fungi (mushrooms) and certain plants. A good amount of science shows beta glucan, when ingested in the body, may function as an “immunostimulant,” activating “macrophages,” which are a specific kind of white blood cell. And we all [...]
The experts are warning that the 2009 fall/winter season could be a miserable one from a public health standpoint. The stuff that we experienced last winter and spring may be returning, and more nasty than before.
One way to prepare is to do everything possible to get your immune system in balance, so that your killer cells [...]
Well, I’ve started witnessing the onset of my friends and relatives sneezing up a storm, slamming the antihistamines and turning into the suffering, sniffling allergy zombies.
Me, I’m as far from taking a loratadine pill as I’ve ever been. And, as I did last fall, I’ve looked up the pollen count for my area of the country to [...]
We now are ending the cold and flu season. In tribute to this, I post a video from Procter and Gamble’s research and development scientists. As you’ll see in this 4-minute piece, the researchers discuss findings from a closely controlled study of severe cold symptoms. Their research concludes that all the miserable things people endure when [...]
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