Preventive Medicine | Health Savvy | Savvy Cafe
Jun 04 2007
The old saying ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ is well understood by those who suffer from severe headaches. It’s preferable not to get one in the first place. That’s particularly true of migraine sufferers. The pulsating, intense pain can produce unpleasant effects that actually outlast the migraine episode.
To attack that [...]
(ARA) – Getting the flu can have serious consequences, especially for children. Every year, children in the United States get extremely ill and some die from influenza (“the flu”) and its complications. Richard Kanowitz knows this all too well — he and his wife Alissa lost their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to the flu four years [...]
Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.
Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old mother, Jewell Fondren, suffers from osteoporosis (a disease that causes bone to become weak and susceptible to [...]