Healthbolt’s Gone Hollywood!
This week is Celebrity Week at the b5Media Health and Wellness Channel and Healthbolt is joining in.
So expect to see some posts over the coming days featuring some of your favorite (or not so favorite) celebrites and what they are up to (or not up to) healthwise.
Personally, I try not to follow the celebrity trail too much, but of course it’s often hard to miss. The media make sure of that. But there’s good celebrity health coverage and then there’s bad celebrity health coverage. I’m going to try and stick to the good, and avoid the bad and the ugly.
For …read more
The Best in Health and Wellness: Posts from Across the Channel
May 2, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Blogosphere, Cancer, Children, Easy Health Tips, Greatest Hits, Los Linky Links, Web, Your Body, Your Mind
Here is an April roundup from the Health and Wellness channel. Enjoy!
There is something for everyone (breastfeeding or not) in the mix of the Breastfeeding 1-2-3 highlights from April 2008:
Free Pattern for Sewing Your Own Crew Neck Over-the-Head Baby Bibs
Judge Denies FLDS Request to Keep Mothers with Nursing Babies
World Health Day 2008: Protecting Health from Climate Change
Breastfeeding Basics Checklist for a Good Breastfeeding Latch
Gentian Violet and Grapefruit Seed Extract as Thrush Remedies
Breastfeeding and International Travel
Top Five Breastfeeding Interviews
And from Kristen at Lively Women…
April is STD awareness month
Resources for organizing your office and your life
Tap water vs bottled water whats safer …read more
Your Dentist as Breast Cancer Detective?
April 22, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Cancer, Health, Healthcare, How To, Medicine, Misc., Morning News, Prevention
We think of dental offices as places to have teeth cleaned and fillings filled. We don’t usually think of them as a place to get tested for breast cancer.
But new research and studies have appeared that show the dentist chair might just be the place to go for early detection of breast cancers.
Charles Streckfus, D.D.S., a professor of diagnostic services at the University of Texas in Houston, has come up with the simple idea of chewing gum to detect breast cancer.
Here’s how it works: You chew the gum for around 5 minutes and then spit it into a cup where it …read more
