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      Survival Strategies for the Upcoming Allergy Season

      March 31, 2011 /

      Did you know that commonly held beliefs about allergies are simply false?

      From air purifiers to cold medicines there is a lot to know about managing your allergy.

      You’ll find helpful hints and tips and allergy facts to help you cope this allergy season.

      “It’s the worse allergy season I’ve seen in a decade. We haven’t experienced such high allergy counts this time of year.

      They’re 20 [percent] to 25 percent higher than they usually are.”

      More than 20 percent of Americans suffer from allergies, and 14 million will visit a doctor’s office this year and rack up $6 billion in treatment costs.

      Combined, an estimated 4 million sick days will be taken because of allergies

      Wellness

      Long-term tamoxifen therapy increases breast cancer survival

      March 30, 2011 /

      Cancer research has come a long way last 5 years.

      Thanks to organizations like the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation once considered experimental drugs like tamoxifen are making headway toward a cure.

      The findings showed that for every hundred women with breast cancer who completed a full five-year course of tamoxifen, the cancer came back in around six fewer women, compared to those who only took the drug for two years.
      This latest British study, which was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on Monday, also found that an added benefit of taking tamoxifen for five years was that it reduced the risk of developing or dying from heart disease.

      Research

      The Top 10 Medication Mistakes Parents Make

      March 30, 2011 /

      Being a parent is hard enough but taking care of an ill child is even tougher.

      Following physician’s instructions can sometimes be confusing.

      Here are the 10 most common mistakes that parents make:

      Doctors say many well-intentioned parents slip when giving medication. The mistakes listed here can prolong a child’s illness, cause bothersome side effects, and even sabotage treatment.

      1. Consult Your Doctor
      2. Measurements
      3. Gauge by Weight
      4. Check Your Doses

      5. What to Look For
      6. Follow Through
      7. Don’t Use Old Medication

      8. Quality, Not Quantity
      9. Never Assume
      10.How to Give Medication

      Don’t panic, kids are pretty resilient.

      A lot of love and little attention goes along way!

      Quality Control

      Parents on the front line to fight bad eating habits on and off campus!

      March 29, 2011 /

      In Philadelphia parents are taking matters in their own hands to protect kids from making poor food choices.

      The parents standing guard outside the Oxford Food Shop are foot soldiers in a national battle over the diets of children that has taken on new fervor. With 20 percent of the nation’s children obese, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed new standards for federally subsidized school meals that call for more balanced meals and, for the first time, a limit on calories. The current standard specifies only a minimum calorie count, which some schools meet by adding sweet foods

      The Agriculture Department wants to change the content of federally subsidized school meals — 33 million lunches and 9 million breakfasts a day — by the fall of 2012. Beyond the calorie cap, the new standards would emphasize whole grains, vegetables and fruits and set tighter limits on sodium and fats

      Do you think schools should help parents in this battle. In the end they are our future

      Nutrition, Wellness

      New studies reveal how prostate cancer spreads!

      March 29, 2011 /

      According to a new study from University of Michigan discover how prostate cancer cells spread to the bones. Science offers hope for the treatment of prostate cancer

      So why does cancer recur? Say a person has a tumor and surgeons cut it out or do radiation, but it recurs in the bone marrow five years later, Taichman said. Those cancer cells had been circulating in the body well before the tumor was discovered, and one place those cancer cells hid is the niche.

      “So what have the cancer cells been doing during those five years? Now we have a partial answer — they’ve been sitting in this place whose job it is to keep things from proliferating and growing,” Taichman said.

      “Our work also provides an explanation as to why current chemotherapies often fail in that once cancer cells enter the niche, most likely they stop proliferating,” said Yusuke Shiozawa, lead author of the study. “The problem is that most of the drugs we use to try to treat cancer only work on cells that are proliferating.”

      Research, Wellness

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