High Blood Pressure | Health Savvy | Savvy Cafe
Jul 20 2008
High blood pressure is a condition wherein the individual’s blood pressure is constantly elevated. It is also called hypertension by many other people and doctors. Many people suffer from this condition and although the causes are said to be the food that we ingest, many factors also point to genes as one of the culprits [...]
(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 [...]