Category: Wellness
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Care for Your Contacts to Protect Your Eyes
We are always quick to wash, clean and replace socks and underwear. But what about contacts? Contact lenses are medical devices that come in direct contact with the eyes. But sometimes we don’t treat them with the respect they deserve. The truth is that improper care of contact lenses could have a permanent effect on…
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Swollen, Tender Lymph Nodes — What Could it Mean?
You wake up feeling blah. Your neck feels tender and swollen. The pain is intense, and touching it only makes it hurt worse. “Oh no,” you think. “It feels like I have golf balls in my neck. What’s wrong with me?” Chances are, you’ve got swollen lymph nodes — and that’s anything but fun. Lymph…
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5 Once-Rare Diseases Making a Comeback
Modern medicine’s goal is to eradicate devastating diseases. It’s had great success over the last century, turning many life-altering conditions into footnotes in the history books, thanks to dedicated researchers and a culture of mass inoculations. But several contagious and potentially deadly diseases once thought to have vanished in the United States are now reappearing.…
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7 Dangerous Inherited Diseases – Are You at Risk?
Baseball great Mickey Mantle’s father died at age 40 from Hodgkin’s disease. The early death haunted Mantle all his life, and many felt his battle with alcohol may have been a way of self-medicating to deal with grief and the fear that he was susceptible to the same disease. Mantle himself had a humorous take…
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5 Reasons Why You Might Have Muscle Spasms
If you’re human, you know the feeling. You wake up and start to get an odd sensation in the calf, the back, or another part of the body. Suddenly, agony ensues. It’s the result of a muscle spasm, and all the victim can do is wait and pray to whatever gods that the twisting pain…
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The Health Hazards of a Sketchy Manicure
Fingernails and toenails are tiny parts of the body, but their treatment is a big business in the United States. More than $1 billion in revenue is generated each year by the nail salon business in this country, with annual growth pegged at more than 2 percent for the overall hair and nail salon business.…
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Walk Away from Pedestrian Health Hazards
Walking can be more dangerous than driving. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that more than 4,700 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States in 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, while another 76,000 were injured. Because they are not encased in a steel frame when struck…
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5 Dangerous Injury Treatments That Just Aren’t True
Everyone seems to know what to do in an emergency. But is the advice they’re giving you actually the right way to treat an injury? That’s been the dilemma for mankind since its beginning. Everyone thinks they know the proper way to treat something, but most of their information comes from bad sources, anecdotal experience…
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5 Dangers of Sitting
Everyone sits. Whether it’s for work, relaxation at the end of a long day, or to dine with friends and loved ones, it’s practically guaranteed that you will spend a good portion of each day on your rear. But all that resting on your hindquarters has a downside. Research has tied long periods of sitting…
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The Germiest Spot in Your House (Where Is It?)
Germs are all around us. Whether floating in the air, lingering lovingly on food, hiding on plants, nestling in pets, squirming in the soil, mixed in with drinking water or crawling on the body, germs are present there — and on every other location imaginable. Every 20 minutes, certain bacteria divide under optimal conditions. Some…