Alzheimer’s Detection — When to Know?
It is now possible to detect, but not treat, Alzheimer's disease years before the onset of any symptoms. Would you want to know? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFmTr6zwfMc[/youtube]
Heart Healthy Recipes
Have a Heart Healthy Diet on Feb. 4th and WEAR RED to support GO RED FOR WOMEN Tex-Mex Chili Pie Serves 4; 1 1/2 cups per serving Perfect for wintry nights or while watching sporting events, this hearty chili is…
What is the treatment for a dog bite?
What is the treatment for a dog bite? There are three important treatment issues that need to be addressed with a dog bite: 1. the skin damage; 2. injury to underlying tissues such as muscle, nerve, and bone; 3. and…
What is High Blood Pressure?
The first force occurs as blood pumps out of the heart and into the arteries that are part of the circulatory system. The second force is created as the heart rests between heart beats. (These two forces are each represented…
Seniors may have to pay for Medicare home health
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare recipients COULD see a sizable new out-of-pocket charge for home health visits if Congress follows through on a recommendation issued Thursday by its own advisory panel. Until now, home health visits from nurses and other providers…
Got Osteoporosis? What to Eat?
Got Milk? Calcium is the cornerstone of strong bones. Adults up to age 50 need 1,000 milligrams per day. Beginning at age 51, women need 1,200 milligrams every day, and when men hit 71, they need to hit that mark,…
Know Your Osteoporosis Blood Test Markers
No matter which osteoporosis drug your doctor chooses for you, it's helpful to know as much as possible about how the disease has affected you. One way to tell is to ask about your "markers." When you're being treated for…
Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever?
From Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales." In Middle English, the phrase was "Fede a cold and starb ob feber" translated as "feed a cold and DIE of fever." In those days people did not eat when they were sick and…
How to have a Quality Christmas?
How can you make YOUR holiday season worthwhile? Do something for someone else. Pay it forward at Christmas Patient Advocate coordinated this Christmas Stocking event. The teens from the Santa Maria Pony Club helped to make residents at Ingleside Assisted…
My Mom will be singing in Heaven today
My mom went to heaven at 8:45 AM today. She her broken body is now resting in the arms of Jesus. She is on Heaven's Health Care plan now. (a perfect one available to all) There will be no services…