You?ve noticed lately that your child coughs, wheezes, and has trouble in breathing. Frequent coughs during the night also add up your worry.
The symptoms above may indicate that your child has asthma. It?s a very common disease in babies and children.
When you child gets asthma, the tubes that bring air to the lungs are [...]
We are now more than six months into the year. Six months from our last New Year resolutions.
Did you resolve to take charge of your asthma?
To never have to rush to the emergency room again?
To stick to a routine of taking your medication the way it should be taken, or to look into some of [...]
Do you remember that quaint Evil Empire that stretched across much of the world; the one where countless millions were enslaved, without opportunity or hope?
Well, I have news for you.
Those huddled masses weren?t completely hopeless, poor, or disadvantaged.
If you interview Russians who grew up during the age of Glasnost, you?ll learn many of them had [...]
A few years ago I was at a Christmas party with my wife. She wasn?t feeling well and we went outside for some fresh air. She was sitting on top of a low wall, and she started to get up and fainted. With the assistance of some friends, we got her into [...]
It is New Year?s Eve. You have one drink, then another, then a third. You used to be able to chug down 6 drinks without consequences. But lately, you?ve noticed that things are a bit different. Before dinner is over, you are wobbly; your speech slurs. Before the night is over, you are spread out [...]
The onset of the portable defibrillator has single-handedly taken the life saving measures of the cardiac defibrillator out of the exclusive domain of the emergency room, and into the hands of a general public now able to help fight the tragedy of death by sudden cardiac arrest.
A defibrillator is a device developed to combat cardiac [...]
The management of medical transcription, medicare billing, cpt codes, and other medical records has typically consisted of wall to wall files of paper records. According to a recent survey conducted by Accenture, most health care consumers feel that switching to the electronic medical record would improve the quality of health care and the security of [...]
Comment from one of our readers …
I did find it interesting that your list of recommended
books did not include any by Ornish, McDougall and others.
But then I recognize that you stress the elimination of sugar
while the others stress the reduction of fats. It seems to
me to be different paths to [...]
If you?re reading this book, chances are that you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a mental illness. This is a scary time, filled with lots of questions, strange buzz words, and people pushing drugs at you. In the best case scenario, you need to know that you?re not alone. In the worst [...]
What do you do when a friend or relative has an unexpected medical emergency and you have to accompany them to the emergency room? If it is a serious medical problem, you will need to call the emergency services phone number 911 (in the U.S. and Canada) and be ready to provide important information [...]
