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Chandra Leigh Brown: The Soul of a Survivor Chandra Leigh Brown is a woman who lives a life of dedication and perseverance as she fights for the rights of the disabled, and differently-abled. Following a horrendous car accident where she was ejected through her car's window, Brown suffered multiple fractures and a severe brain injury. Left on life support, she was not expected to live. ...How the Legal System Stacks Up Against Mammography Lawyers all over the country are stalking physicians alleging medical malpractice, whether those physicians are negligent or not. Is anyone going to stop them?Sickness and disease are in the cards for many of us, and death is inevitable. At times, though, any one of those can be promulgated by the negligent actions of a physician, say lea ...Mindfulness and Perspective: Getting Hip Diane is one of my favorite clients.A warm and engaging woman, she is a loving grandmother and a talented painter. We worked—I think of it as playing, really—together a while back to help her reignite her creative energy after a major move.Diane was scheduled for hip replacement surgery recently, and she sent me a little note sayi ...Are You Getting Enough Folic Acid? Chances are you are taking supplements for vitamins A, C, and E but what about folic acid? If you don’t eat a lot of leafy greens, liver or brewers yeast, then chances are that you are not getting enough of this important vitamin.Folic Acid, otherwise known as vitamin B9 is essential to cell production and plays a vital role in the devel ...An Angel Amidst the Hats IT was with a heavy heart that I left my favorite lingerer store, Victory’s Secret. It slowly sunk in that I would never again be able to wear their lovely bras. I could not have foreseen on that gloomy day that approximately one year later I would submit a proposal suggesting some innovative ways, or at least I thought so, to create fun, colorf ...Antiperspirants And Breast Cancer Most underarm antiperspirants contain as the active ingredient, Aluminium Chlorohydrate, as you will probably remember there has been controversy about Aluminium, since the 1950's when it was a popular metal used for making cooking pots, Saucepans and Fry Pans and that it could be one of the contributing factors to Alzheimer's, now we have anoth ...Cervical Cancer - Detect It Early Cervical cancer ranks high on the list of common cancers that plague women worldwide; it comes second after breast cancer in prevalence. More than 300,000 women die of cervical cancer every year, worldwide, while in the United States alone, 13,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed every year, with about 4,000 deaths. Most cases of cervica ...Life After Cancer I may have run 6 marathons, the last one 7 months after surgery and chemotherapy for cervical cancer, but I am no Lance Armstrong. Lance, as many of you know, was diagnosed ten years ago with testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. He survived surgery and gruelling chemotherapy to come back and win the Tour de France, arguably ...How James Dean Became The Original Bad Boy Of Hollywood James Dean paved the way for bad boys Hollywood history. Boys wanted to be like him, and girls wanted to date him. Critics consistently booed him, calling him a Brando imitation, but now more than a half a century after his death, we can all recognize his role as the original bad boy in Hollywood film.Born on February 8, 1931 in Marion, I ...Medical Malpractice Suits: Death By Medicine A recent report has found that Americans are more frightened of dying at the hands of their doctor than they are of a plane crash. The overwhelming majority of those who participated in the survey said that information about malpractice suits and medical errors would be the single most deciding factor in trusting a healthcare provider. These peo ...Nutrition and Cancer - Are They Connected? Why do animals found in the wild not suffer from cancer? It is an intriguing question. Perhaps it is because only the fittest survive, so only those with high immune systems and good health make it into adulthood. This may be the case, but there is another important factor that is being missed. When an animal consumes vegetation that is foun ...Tumor Markers Due to progress in medical and biotechnological studies in the recent years scientists have focused on tumors not only within macroscopic or pharmacological perspectives, but also within molecular and cytogenic ones. Molecular epidemiology, a new area of medical knowledge has been singled out. It is currently oriented at the search for biomedica ...Should You Get Rid Of Extra Weight As Well Get Rid Of Toxins We are all exposed to thousands of toxins and chemicals on a daily basis at work, in the home, through the air we breathe, our food and water supply, and through the use of pharmaceutical drugs. In addition, we are eating more sugar and processed foods than ever before in human history and regularly abuse our bodies with various stimulants and s ...A Broken and Contrite Heart "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51:17, NIVWhat an interesting week this last week has been. All sorts of weird things happening to my Christian sisters it seems. One was very ill (she suffers from a rare disease sort of a like an environmental disease ) an ...
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