Oh, for the days when you were sick and you simply stayed in bed. Now, just as we seem to do with everything else, we over-think it to the point of complete distraction. Keeping sick kids home. What about school commitments, work commitments, baby sitters, getting to the doctors, the other kids – home, work, […]
NOT sleeping through the night is no accident; sleeping THROUGH the night is no accident either; and, good sleep begins with deciding and defining. Infant sleep habits are varied but there are some tips.
Everyone gets sick in the world; but, even in 2017, VAST numbers of people have no hope of care. A BILLION people lack access simply because they live so far from a clinic it’s impossible to get there even IF they had transportation to do so. Then there’s war—like in Liberia which has now left only 51 doctors for the entire country of 4 million people!
This TED video is about what one physician, Raj Panjabi, is actually doing about it; and a practical answer for other countries to follow.
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in it’s day!]When you were a kid and were asked the standard question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” how did you respond? If you said: “A fireman!” well, this may interest you: So […]
[Page is no longer served on the CDC site – an odd thing for a major government entity like the CDC to do; but, there you are.] Body Mass Index (BMI) uses weight and height to calculate a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people in order to screen for potential health problems. Here […]