It seems like U.S healthcare is more concerned about profits than patients these days. Now is the time to learn more about the latest legal battles patients face with conditions from head to toe and how to be your own best healthcare advocate, so you receive the care you deserve.
A family battles a crippling disease that can be invisible for years and become so painful has been nicknamed “the Suicide Disease.” A health system whose leaders are heavy-handed and seemingly uncaring. For those who suffer from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), the recent Netflix…
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic are studying whether human stem cells can help treat complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and the results could lead to medical breakthroughs. There’s currently no cure for the condition, which can be debilitating and leaves sufferers in tremendous pain. Current…
November is CRPS Awareness Month, established to bring attention to a rare but incredibly painful chronic condition occurring in almost 200,000 Americans every year. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is an autoimmune disease of the nervous system, usually resulting from traumatic injury to an arm…
Daniel Scali, 28 of Australia, smashed the Guinness World Record for the longest time in the abdominal plank position (male) with 9 hours, 30 minutes and 1 second. Scali’s new record was set on August 6, 2021, in Adelaide, Australia. The new world record replaces…
Summertime means the kids are out of school, and for many, that means vacation time. A theme park can be an all-inclusive fun way to burn some energy and make your kids happy. About 335 million people visit a U.S. theme park every year, and…
The unprecedented development speed of the COVID-19 vaccines has created a lot of new questions and few answers. One of them is the legality of mandating your employees to get a vaccine or face termination. Lawsuits arguing against it are landing in courtrooms all over…
With the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines, a collective sigh of relief spread across the U.S. Pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech developed vaccines in less than a year, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approving both vaccines for emergency use in December 2020. As…
COVID-19 vaccinations are rolling out lightning fast – as of April 1, over 54 million people in the U.S. have received it, and states are lowering the age requirement every day. But now that the vaccine is so widely accessible, the next natural question is,…
Since the COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the FDA and distributed, the news has been dominated by how quickly it was developed and approved. There has also been quite a bit of coverage about how safe such a new, untested vaccine is and whether we…
To most Americans, vaccines are something we have always had. Since birth, we have routinely gotten them, and they are easy to take for granted. But vaccines actually have a long and complicated history, and it took hundreds of years to get where they are…
