Health

Nurses’ jobs are hard. In today’s health care industry nurses are taking on more responsibilities and doing multiple jobs due to staffing shortages experienced throughout the country.

By Marilynn Preston Dr. Amit Sood – professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine – grew up and went to medical school in Bhopal, India. Throughout his medical training, he writes, he experienced “the scourge of poverty, malnutrition and disease” that...

By Jane Anderson | Verywell Health Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease in which eating foods that contain the protein gluten—found in wheat, barley, and rye—causes damage to your small intestine. It has a wide range of potential symptoms. People who have untreated...

By Marilynn Preston Any body, at any age, can suffer a sports injury, but we baby boomers are famous for them. There’s actually a term for it – boomeritis – and it refers to the high number of sports-related injuries that happen to people born between 1946 and 1964 –...

It’s summer. Yippee. Run to the hammock and let’s play a game. I want you to lie back and relax into thinking about something you want to accomplish this summer.

Healthy lifestyles don’t just happen, the way dust balls do, for instance. It’s up to you to carpe diem, to let go of old habits so you can dance with new ones – two steps forward, one step back – until the new ones become a juicy and joyful part of your life.