Breast cancer survivors often measure their lives in milestones.
Birthdays, anniversaries and graduations are the benchmarks of
their lives. They know each one is precious.
A recent report from Harvard Medical School says middle-aged and
older women need to worry about particular health concerns -
osteoporosis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and microvascular
disease, a t
Jim Smokey had just about given up hope that he would see well
enough anymore to drive, fish, read the newspaper or enjoy the
beautiful landscape around him.
Signs of heart disease — generally thought to be a disease of
middle-age — can be seen even in children, cardiologists now know.
But risk factors in children and young adults run the risk of being
Dr. Todd Mahr sees it all the time: parents who smoke around
their asthmatic children. Mahr, a Gundersen Lutheran physician
specializing in children’s asthma and allergies, said some parents
don’t