What Is Colitis | Health Savvy | Savvy Cafe
Jun 21 2008
Whenever there are problems associated with the gastrointestinal system, questions like “what is ulcerative colitis” always come to light. This is because most of the gastrointestinal problems today are related to colitis or ulcerations. True enough, there is an increasing rate of colitis incidence for unknown reasons. People are curious about the disease that never [...]
Jun 02 2008
People always ask what is colitis or what is Crohn’s disease? Several answers are given by different people over the news or the internet. But do all of them provide you with the information you need? And can you ascertain that the information you are getting from your sources is correct? To give an answer [...]
(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 [...]