Less than a month after breaking two vertebrae in a fall, 86-year-old Stella Lee of Garrett Borough was home and back to her normal routine.
“I’m getting along really well,� Lee said. “I walk to town for the mail.�
Her quick, pain-free recovery is typical for those receiving some of Memorial Medical Center’s latest procedures.
Using two needles […]
Some women insist on a drug-free childbirth - even though it might be agonizing - while others opt for a numbing epidural. Is this all part of the simmering debate between natural and modern medicine, or are some women embracing labor pain for a more heroic cause?
The anesthesiologist’s epidural tool kit includes a flexible plastic […]
Q: I thought I heard something recently about infants developing eczema from having a cat in the house. Is that true? I have a new granddaughter who shares her home with a 30-pound Maine coon cat. The cat sheds like crazy. Is this a problem?
A: You heard it right, but we can’t say if it […]
EnerGel All Natural Products, an authorized distributor of Sante Natural Products, launches new webstore featuring water filters and energized water products for the home , bringing all the pain relieving benefits of these highest quality products to a wider US market.
Through a patented process called Essential Energy, EnerGel All Natural Products offers a product line […]
James Chang knows a lot about fabrics. Michael Webb knows a lot about back pain.
Together, the two Saratoga Springs men are trying to change the market for wheelchairs and hospital beds for the sick and disabled.
Chang takes a stretchable synthetic fabric and uses it for beds, wheelchair backs and other types of chairs to help […]
Brandon Thomson, aged nine, is curled up on his side in a too-familiar hospital bed, downy hair struggling across his scalp, skin so pale he may disappear. The only certainties about him are the bruises that darken his inner arm and the row of tubes taped just below his ribs.
Brandon has leukaemia and he’s been […]
They call it the doughnut hole. It’s more like a black hole that Medicare recipients fall into when their prescription drug benefits come to a screeching halt.
Millions of Americans signed up for prescription drug plans under the new Medicare Part D. They were told they would save lots of money, and in the early going […]
Q. I thought I heard something recently about infants developing eczema from having a cat in the house. Is that true? I have a new granddaughter who shares her home with a 30-pound Maine coon cat. The cat sheds like crazy. Is this a problem?
A. You heard it right, but we can’t say if it […]