By: Kathy Hubbard. Tomorrow, November 20, is The Great American Smokeout. It started almost fifty years ago with the concept that if you could quit for one day, you could quit forever.
By: Kathy Hubbard. Once upon a time, type 2 diabetes (T2D) was called “adult onset” diabetes because it rarely occurred in children. Although it still primarily occurs in adults, we’re seeing the rate of T2D increasing exponentially in children between the ages of 10 to 19 years old.
By: Kathy Hubbard. There are currently seven million Americans living with Alzheimer’s. That means one out of every nine people over age 65 have it. As we all live longer, those numbers will go up.
By: Kathy Hubbard. We tend to think of heart-related issues as occurring in our older population, but it’s not necessarily the case with sudden cardiac arrest. It can happen at any age, and the occurrences in those between 25 and 44 years of age have been increasing in recent years.
By: Kathy Hubbard. An article published by the National Library of Medicine questions if Crohn’s disease is a “rightly used eponym.” It reads, “In 1932 Burrill B. Crohn, a gastroenterologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, described, together with two surgical colleagues, a series of fourteen patients with an inflammatory condition of the terminal ileum.
By: Kathy Hubbard. “I’m now 53 and have just recently stumbled on an article about hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and started reading it and it was a true revelation. This was the answer to the biggest mystery of my life, what is causing these huge boils I’ve had in the strangest places since I was a teenager,”
By: Kathy Hubbard. First off, I want to encourage all women over the age of 40 to make an appointment to have their yearly mammogram. It’s October. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you’re between 40 and 74 you should get screened. If you’re older than that, talk to your primary care provider.
By: Kathy Hubbard. If you’ve ever known someone with gout, you know that the crystals that uric acid produces can produce extreme pain. Most often starting in the big toe, the crystals can form in any joint. When a gout attack occurs, it’s because the crystals have become inflamed.
By: Kathy Hubbard. Heads up. The statistics are eye openers. The National Institutes on Health says that every year 600,000 individuals will incur sports and recreational eye related injuries.
By: Kathy Hubbard. When someone says to you, “I think this world would be better off without me,” or words to that effect, what do you say?
By: Kathy Hubbard. About one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. As a matter of fact, it’s second to skin cancer as the most common cancer in men.
By: Kathy Hubbard. This Sunday, August 31, is International Overdose Awareness Day. The United States Drug Enforcement Agency calls it “the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose…”
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