Category Archives: Health & Wellness
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An Update on AZ Nurse Amanda Trujillo Case
Amanda Trujillo, a registered nurse in Arizona, has been scuffling with her case on patient advocacy for several months already. On January 24, 2012, her case was supposedly to be heard. But unfortunately, it has been postponed and rescheduled on March. And what is reason for delaying it? The AZ BON don’t like Amanda’s online […]
Act Against AIDS: Get an HIV Testing
Today is World AIDS Day. After three decades, are we making any progress eradicating HIV/AIDS? Combating HIV has obviously been one of the greatest challenges for science and finding cure or the vaccine that will truly eradicate it remains elusive. But now, we have the means, the medicines and other tools to ensure that we […]
Know More about the Prostate Cancer Test
Screen tests have always been controversial and the latest draft recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that men with no symptoms of prostate cancer no longer get screened through the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test has started the debate all over again. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an “independent panel of […]
Massage, The Archaic Art of Healing May Relieve Chronic Low Back Pain
Massage is probably as archaic as the human history. Documents written on the early eras showed how such touching or rubbing served value to both the royals and common people. Some claim it started in China on 3000 BCE or even earlier, but others say it all started in India. Ancient civilizations in Egypt, Rome, […]
Plus-Size Runway Sheds Light to Potential Industry, Uncertainty to Health
Anyone who’d see plus size women conquering the runway would ask where has all the skinny supermodels gone? Has the clothing industry lost its mind that it seems to advertize being fat is good now? On the contrary, certain manufacturers of plus size fashion apparels defend their stance by saying that they do want to […]
