How to Get Rid of a Boil
Ever wonder if that growth is just a really bad pimple or a boil? While the two may start out similarly — as a raised, reddish spot on your skin — a boil continues to grow larger ...
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MRSA Treatment: Staph Infection Prevention & Natural Treatments
About 2 percent of the population carries MRSA bacteria somewhere on the body, the same bacteria that causes over 90,000 serious staph infections in the U.S. alone every year, and is linked to serious health problems ...
Basal Metabolic Rate: What “The Biggest Loser” Can Teach Us
Anyone who’s dieted before knows the truth: it’s hard. While losing weight is often broken down into an all-too-simplistic “calories in vs. calories out,” it can often seem like no matter what you do, the ...
Enlarged Prostate Symptoms, Causes & Natural Treatments
It's perfectly normal for a man's prostate to grow throughout his adult life. For some men, this doesn't bring about any serious symptoms, but for others, an enlarged prostate can lead to issues that affect ...
Ear Infection Symptoms, Causes & Risk Factors to Avoid
Wondering if your painful symptoms are pointing to an ear infection and what you should do to help these potential ear infection symptoms go away?
Symptoms of ear infections usually include earaches or throbbing pain, sometimes ...
Do Lipitor Side Effects Outweigh the Potential Benefits?
The “epidemic” of high cholesterol has taken many parts of the Western world by storm, and physicians seem to have the answer: cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor that do all the work your body apparently can’t ...
The Pros & Cons of Bariatric Surgery + Healthier Alternatives
For a country obsessed with losing weight, spending more than $60 billion a year trying to shed pounds, Americans are failing miserably. Even though we know the health risks that come with being too overweight, ...
Dangerous Kids’ Makeup, Including the 11 Scariest Ingredients
The only thing scarier than kids' Halloween costumes this time of year is the ingredients in dangerous kids' makeup used to get them in character. An eye-opening 2016 report published by the Breast Cancer Fund and ...
How to Maintain Proper Prostate Health
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men living in the United States, with an estimated 180,890 new cases and 26,120 deaths from prostate cancer in 2016. (1) Those are scary numbers, ...
10 Cell Phone Safety Tips You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Do cell phones cause cancer? The preliminary results of a massive, government-funded study suggest they could. This makes cell phone safety an incredibly important topic. The early findings in the $25 million U.S. National Toxicology ...
