Focus on Health: Race and Poverty and Immigration in America Today
November 8th, 2010
Written by Eric Trump in Focus on Health with 4 Comments
In the John Irving novel, The World According to Garp, a comatose man sires the protagonist, Garp. Garp’s mother, a flinty nurse who wants a child but no husband, straddles the man, a brain damaged sergeant, who suffers (or enjoys) bouts of automatic arousal, and becomes impregnated.She raises Garp herself, with the sergeant fading from the story, a convenient and passive means to an end.However...
October 14th, 2010
Written by Laura Monroe in Focus on Health with 0 Comments
For children who suffer chronically from any of number of ailments, the use of diet to ease or treat symptoms is a viable alternative to medication and other traditional forms of treatment. Of course, sometimes medication is unavoidable—and as many parents will attest, thank goodness it is there—but an altered diet in conjunction with that treatment often boosts results and helps a child better...
October 7th, 2010
Written by Wendy Innes in Focus on Health with 0 Comments
Did you know that every 8.5 seconds in America, someone turns 50? There were a total of 75.8 million people born during the “baby boom,” or the period between 1946 and 1964, and those people are now entering their golden years, making them America’s newest seniors. While many people during this period paid little mind to what they ate, in general, they were more active than they are today, and as...
September 30th, 2010
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health with 0 Comments
While all human beings obviously belong to the same species, different physical appearances, such as hair color, texture, skin color, and even size, does contribute to the particular types of illnesses that affect various ethnic groups. In many cases, these illnesses are overwhelmingly more predominant in one ethnic group than another, but the question is why.Dr. Luis Retamozo, at HMA Keene...
September 7th, 2010
Written by Rita Cook in Focus on Health with 0 Comments
A person can conceivably be allergic to nearly anything these days."Allergies are “a mistake of the immune system,” according to James R. Haden, M.D., an allergist on the medical staff at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth, TX. “[They] are an immune reaction to a non-infectious agent – an overactive response to something to which the immune system should not be reacting at all.”...
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