When Bill woke in the hospital room, a smiling nurse was wrapping a sphygmomanometer around his right arm.
Terror gripped him when he tried to form the words, “What happened?” They got stuck in his brain and never made it to his mouth.
“You’ve had a stroke, Dad.” His daughter stood beside the bed, [...]
Attention Deficit Disorder. What is it? How is it affecting our children and our schools? Attention Deficit Disorder is a syndrome that usually begins during one’s childhood and persists throughout one’s life. It is characterized as a syndrome resulting in hyperactivity, shortened attention spans and being impulsive in different areas of life. [...]
As a child in school I had a serious dental accident. It happened during a physical education class. We were playing a game with two teams which took place inside a large empty room with a wood floor. The sides of the room were lined with old theatre chairs linked together at [...]
Neil Shulman, MD, has written a book ? Your Body?s Red Light Warning Signals. In it he lists hundreds of medical symptoms that could mean the difference between life, death and a serious disability. Shulman says that too many people are dying because they are not aware that these symptoms can be a tip [...]
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 [...]
In this article we’re going to discuss exactly how high blood pressure in a person is measured.
A person’s blood pressure is commonly measured with an instrument called a blood pressure cuff or sphygmomanometer. The blood pressure cuff is made up of an air pump, a pressure gauge, and a rubber cuff. The device [...]
Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health says that 250,000 deaths are
caused each year by ?Iatrogenic? causes ? Iatrogenic
is defined as induced in a patient by a physician?s
activity, manner or therapy. Dr. Starfield cautions
that these estimates are for deaths only and do not
include negative [...]
If you are like me, it was probably a big shock when you were diagnosed with Asthma. I was 29 years old and had never had any kind of serious condition before. Colds and flu were the most serious things I had suffered.
I had been caught in a rainstorm one day and had come down [...]
Knowing what to do when someone is having an asthma attack can save their life. So many people around the world have asthma, however it can be easily forgotten just how serious a condition it can be. The fact is that people die from asthma attacks, they simple cannot breathe.
So if you learn [...]
At the age of 17, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. My doctor couldn?t hardly believe it. That was back in 1975. I wasn?t fat, in fact I was almost pure muscle. I was hyper and couldn?t stay still. I had to be doing something all the time. [...]
