Hey, everyone. I had an emergency in my family, and haven’t had the time to be here.Yet another member of my family was struck with cancer, and this time it was my brother. I can’t tell you how distressing this has been.His wife kept telling him to go and get a checkup, and he finally did. Well, one finding led to another, and then he was advised to get a colonoscopy because they suspected   read more

You can get many home tests that test the state of your health. To see how well you are doing when it comes to antioxidants properties in your body, you can use a home testing kit that will give you an assessment of your antioxidant and detoxification values. If you find that you are low in antioxidant properties in your system, you can use products such as vitamins and foods that will raise the amount of antioxidants you have in your body. Antioxidants are key to fighting disease as they keep your body healthy and boost your immune system. Testing for antioxidants to see if you are in good health   read more

Price of H1N1 can vary by a factor of three. It pays to shop. Are caterpillar ovaries just as good as chicken eggs for growing the flu shot vaccine? Apparently. Number of people living on a dollar a day has plummeted from almost 1 billion to about one-third that number. The reason: the spread of capitalism. Physicians find more polyps in early-morning colonoscopies: Hour by hour, the results get worse as the day goes on.   read more

was recently in my hometown of New Martinsville visiting my dad, a retired family physician. When I arrived he had waiting for me a copy of one of my grandfather’s medical records from the 1930s. My grandfather, Dr. Albert Coffield, practiced rural medicine in Wetzel County, West Virginia from 1911 until his death in 1936. My dad told me the following story about the medical record. My dad was a doctor who practiced out of his house on Coffield Ridge in Wetzel County. After my dad died in 1936 our mother sold the household furnishing and his office equipment. I was 12 years old when he   read more

This is a good study I think as a user of Twitter I can clearly say those without any personality dont get the reads.  You can pretty much tell the stale and stuffy ones out there as they dont understand how Twitter works, its not like putting an ad online, this is interactive.  Best Buy uses it for customer service.  You know I have to say its difficult for me to explain how valuable Twitter is for efficiency and getting information to those who never even got to RSS feeds, and theres a ton of folks there who dont know what they are.  I see a lot of healthcare folks on here   read more

The Christmas Tree being put up at the Rockefeller Center will be lit on December 2nd, signaling the start of the Christmas season, and department stores and malls all across America will definitely have a resident harbinger of joy: Santa and his happy helpers. And while they are handing out presents without expecting anything in return, they would nevertheless like to be protected from something that they might unknowingly receive swine flu. Jolly old Santa, his round belly and his snowy white beard, however, are not on the priority list of people who should receive swine flu shots. When we come   read more

This is Jim Capretta at National Review Online: According to the Census Bureau, in 2008, there were 127 million Americans under the age of 65 living in households with incomes between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line. The House and Senate health-care bills would essentially promise all of them either free insurance through Medicaid or caps on their insurance premiums based on their incomes. This would constitute the single largest entitlement spending expansion since the Great Society programs of the 1960s. CBO expects the federal spending associated with these new open-ended health   read more

The laughter over the Ralph Lauren model debacle hadn’t even died down when it appeared earlier this week that the fashion industry had repeated its affront to anatomical correctness again but this time on the new cover of W magazine featuring Demi Moore. The blogosphere immediately cried foul as people pointed out the mysterious chunk missing out of her left thigh (our right, looking at the picture). The lines just don’t seem to match up in any way that allow for the proper placement of bones and the fabric seems unnaturally suspended in midair. It seemed like another case of sloppy   read more

I’m honored that my good blogger friend, Fred, has included me in such an auspicious list of his favorite blogs. Being the humble blogger that he is, Fred did not mention his own blog, Luck is for Rabbits, which has been a long time fave of mine! If you’re not yet a reader of Fred’s blog, check it out. You’ll be inspired, motivated and amused – promise. Train hard; stay strong. Peace. Susan   read more

It is never too hard to give a nice word because it feels a lot nicer to know that you made someone happy with it. But of course, it’s different when you say them from the heart or just so you can get something out of saying it…just as it is when you say something that is far from nice; when you blurt out something to intentionally hurt someone, or to embarrass purposely. Anyone feeling positive with such deed have a black heart. That something inside is eating you up until it consumes you all reflecting outside, in your daily living and even in your external façade. Be reminded that someone   read more