I would like to officially welcome our 2 newest bloggers here at the science and health channel. We have a fellow nurse and writer Marijke at Help my Hurt, all about pain management and the essentials of living with chronic pain, and there is Angelique, I love that name, at Breaking the Mirror which is an ED (eating disorder) blog. They have been with b5 for a few weeks now and really rock!
By the way, see if heart disease and MI are indexed in Marijke’s new glossary. I am totally jealous of it and so impressed. Many of hours were …read more

Today kicks off National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. It runs September 10th through the 16th. What is an invisible chronic illness? If you have an illness and it can’t be seen from the outside, you have it. That would include diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, autism, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, migraines, chronic back pain, eating disorders, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, just to name a few.Actually over 95% of chronic illness is invisible. Laura from CFS Squared sent me a link to a great website that is officially hosting an area to come together and “feel that there is …read more