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Why too much sun cream can give you fragile bones0
- Health & Healing
- September 8, 2011
This is a must-read article about sunscreen and how using a lotion with a high SPF factor can affect your Vitamin D levels and your bones. The Daily Mail, 8/26/2011
READ MORECDC: Doctors prescribing fewer antibiotics to kids0
- Home & Family
- September 6, 2011
Health officials are prescribing fewer and fewer antibiotics to children. Since the early 1990s, there’s been a 10% in prescription rates for kids age 14 and younger. Mainly, the CDC is finding larger declines in how often doctors used antibiotics against colds and sore throats. USA Today, 9/2/2011
READ MORECyndi Lauper opening homeless shelter0
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- September 6, 2011
Singer Cyndi Lauper’s shelter for homeless lesbian and gay youths, The True Colors Residence, will open in New York this Friday. The shelter, which is named after Lauper’s 1986 single, will offer help to bisexual and transgender people ages 18-24 who have ended up on the streets because of disapproving families. Lauper explains, “We need
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Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully kill cancer0
- Health & Healing
- September 6, 2011
Cancer therapy could soon change because of a bacterial strain that specifically targets tumors. A scientist at the Society for General Microbiology’s Autumn Conference at New York University says that this strain of bacteria will start being tested on cancer patients in 2013. Breakthrough Digest Medical News, 9/3/2011
READ MORENow, gold cards for everyone0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- September 6, 2011
Credit card issuers are offering gold and platinum cards to a much wider range of people, so it isn’t the exclusive privilege that it once was. According to Synovate Mail Monitor, “Almost one of every three credit card offers mailed in the second quarter was for some kind of premium card, up from one in
READ MOREVolunteers offer compassion in No One Dies Alone program at MetroHealth Medical Center0
- Making a Positive Difference
- September 6, 2011
In June, MetroHealth Medical Center became the first hospital in the greater Cleveland area to offer No One Dies Alone (NODA), a national volunteer program that pairs patients with companions to be with them at the end of life. Volunteers share one patient’s story, which documents their experience with the NODA Program. The Plain Dealer,
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