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
The Sunday Sidebar.
April 13, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Health, Medicine, Misc., Morning News, Surgery, The Sunday Sidebar
Lots of interesting news this week.
Let’s talk transplants…
US doctors at John Hopkins Hospital recently performed what is believed to be the world’s first simulanteous six-way kidney transplant. Can you imagine that? Twelve people were operated on at the same time, with kidneys removed from six people and transplanted into six other people.
Why all at once? In the words of Jeanne Heise who received a kidney from one donor while her husband was donating a kidney to another patient…
“The waiting list for a kidney is very long and too many people die while waiting. With this group procedure, more and more …read more
