Archive for the 'Wellness' Category
23 Doctors Help Houston Woman Deliver Quintuplets
Thursday, August 5th, 2010You know that saying, “It takes a village”, well sometimes it does. And that’s just to deliver some children. It took a small village to help a Houston woman give birth to quintuplets. 23 doctors in two operating rooms. Thirty-year-old Veronica Mayorga-Real delivered the three girls and two boys by Cesarean section Saturday at Children’s [...]
Can Herpes Fight Cancer?
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010Normally it’s best to avoid herpes, but maybe we should embrace it. Just a little. Researchers at a London hospital have discovered encouraging proof that it can be used to treat patients with head and neck cancer. According to BBC News, a genetically engineered herpes virus, used with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, helped kill tumors in [...]
Ingredients Used In Meat Processing Increases Bladder Cancer Risk
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010This should come as a surprise to no one who knows our food supply. An eight-year study from the National Institutes of Health and American Association for Retired Persons has yielded results that suggest that components used in meat processing, including nitrites, can increase the risk of bladder cancer. The researchers followed about 300,000 individuals [...]
More Evidence Supports Dropping Mouth-to-Mouth From CPR
Thursday, July 29th, 2010CPR saves lives. That we know. But two new studies from the U.S. and Europe find that hands-only CPR may be best when trying to save the life of a victim of cardiac arrest. Cardiologist Dr. Myron “Mike” Weisfeldt, physician in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Department of Medicine at [...]
Could Your Boxspring Be Causing Cancer?
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Here’s something you don’t often think of and it seems ludicrous at first. The breast cancer rate is 10% higher on people’s left side than right. Why is that? Some researchers think it’s because people tend to sleep on their right side, and that their boxsprings are pulling in electromagnetic radiation from FM and TV [...]
