Often people who want to stay in their homes as they age need more help than their spouse or partner can give them. It isn’t intense medical help. Often it is someone that is willing to prepare meals, shop, light cleaning, and mostly some conversation.
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What happens when a surgeon’s elderly parents begin to have health issues? Caring for aging parents is difficult because they are used to doing things their way- but sometimes you have to change from being their child, to being their parent.
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National Peach Ice Cream Day is July 17. In honor of National Peach Ice Cream Day, let’s not forget the Killer Peach Ice Cream recipe, brought to us by Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary.
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The use of the kitchen spoon to measure children’s medication is responsible for poisoning our kids. Grow up America, use milliliters – a precise measurement, when dosing your child.
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The latest CDC closing of the bioterrorism laboratories is a necessary step to build protocols for continued safe handling of biologics. But it gives us pause to consider that there are more dangerous diseases out there- and chances are they are coming into our country on a commercial airline.
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The FDA issued warnings about six popular weight loss supplements that contain medications that have been pulled from the market. In the last three years the FDA has issued over 100 warnings on weight loss supplements that contain dangerous medications.
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The finding of live virus, apparently left behind in an old laboratory freezer brings an old viral enemy back into our consciousness.
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Mail order food from diet companies does not encourage weight loss. Once people stop ordering the expensive food weight comes back on. Better to learn to make the food in your kitchen and enjoy better food.
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Terry Simpson MD discusses the recent CDC report that 1 in 10 deaths in the United States is caused by binge drinking. We lose over ten times as many people per year from alcohol as we did in ten years of the war in Iraq. This happens when men drink more than five drinks at a time – and the toll isn’t just in car accidents, but in their health.
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