It won’t kill you—but when you have carpal tunnel syndrome, the numbness, tingling and/or throbbing pain in your wrist and hand can seriously degrade your...
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Rebuilding Your Body After Cancer Treatment
“Cancer survivor” is the title everyone diagnosed with this terrible disease hopes to own — and many do. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
Foods That Make You Fart: It’s Not Just About Beans
The average person produces one to four pints of gas daily and toots it out about 14 times a day. But the fact that flatulence...
Castor Oil Packs Reduce Pain, Swelling, Congestion and More
I was quite a bookworm when I was a girl—and I remember reading about many a storybook heroine who had to swallow a daily dose...
What Body Odors Can Tell You About Your Health
Almost everyone has an occasional bout of bad breath, body odor or awful-smelling flatulence. While these odors can be embarrassing, they usually are not a...
Laundry Error to Blame for Persistent Athlete’s Foot and Toenail Fungus
If you’ve ever had athlete’s foot, you know how hard it is to get rid of. Its persistence is not a reflection of its victims’...
Vertebral Fractures: You May Have a Broken Back and Not Know It
Don’t assume that an aching back means just a pulled muscle. It’s among the most common symptoms of vertebral fractures, small cracks in the vertebrae...
Diverticulitis? Don’t Be Too Quick to Get Surgery
Imagine having abdominal pain so severe that you’re curled up in the emergency room, screaming. Your diagnosis is diverticulitis, an inflamed or infected “pouch” in...
Does Chemo Make Patients Smell Bad?
I was outraged when news reports described how a mom with breast cancer was banned from her daughter’s school because her chemotherapy made her smell...
Natural Colonoscopy Prep
I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t hate preparing for a colonoscopy. Typical doctor’s orders let us drink only clear liquids for a day...
Drugs That Harm Your Eyes—and the Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Vision…
When it comes to drug side effects, among the most widely recognized are nausea, fatigue, headache and dizziness. What often gets overlooked: The eyes, like...
Mushroom Extract May Hold Key to Pancreatic Cancer Cure
Michael Landon, Luciano Pavarotti, Sally Ride, Jack Benny, Patrick Swayze. Those are familiar names of people who have died from pancreatic cancer. You probably know...
