Many parents eagerly await the time their little one learns to walk. Once they talk their first steps, they get fitted with good shoes to protect their feet from the hard ground beneath. But now, studies are showing that it’s actually better for a child to walk around barefoot, and doing so can have huge …
As anyone who finds themselves interacting with people on a daily basis would know intimately, the skill and ability to pull off a successful social interaction is incredibly important. For those who already suffer from social anxiety and the like, you would obviously want all the help you can get. A quick internet search reveals …
A huge ovarian cyst was removed from a woman’s abdomen weighing a whopping 50 pounds. Now, the woman in question, 30-year-old Kayla Rahn from Montgomery, Alabama, is using her experiences to raise awareness in others about being your own advocate when visiting a medical professional. Several months ago, Rahn began to experience severe shortness of …
As the anti-vaxx community grows larger, the debates surrounding the topic grow more and more heated – especially as more preventable disease outbreaks begin to happen all around the world. People on one side of the argument, influenced by an old study that has since been disproven, fear the vaccinations will give their children autism. …
People make a lot of jokes about how there tend to be two types of people who perform one specific task in very different ways from each other. Do you say “to-ma-toe” or “to-mah-to”? Do you pour milk before cereal, or cereal before milk? Do you put the toilet paper on its holder over or …
Jeff and Natasha were excited and joyous when they welcomed a baby girl named Mallory into their family. But then, just three weeks into their new life together, she passed away – and when they found out why and how easily it could have been prevented, they knew they had to reach other new and …
When 16-year-old Shayla Mitchell began feeling sick and her cough wouldn’t go away, she worried she may have a sinus infection and asked Tom, her father, to bring her to a doctor. Doctors conducted some tests on Shayla the next day when she went to Fairfax Hospital after school. The doctor who came to break …
It might have seemed like a lark for a girl vacationing with her family in Brazil to enjoy playing while barefoot in a local pigsty. But the 10-year old soon developed infections on the bottom of both feet involving numerous papules that felt itchy and looked terrible. Each lesion, brown in color, featured black dots …
Heading to the doctor when you feel ill is a pretty smart thing to do. But sometimes, even doctors can make mistakes – and sadly, these mistakes can sometimes be fatal. At the age of 30, Aaron Winstanley received the diagnosis of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. It was the August of 2016 at the time. The condition …
With the controversy about vaccines from several years ago still fresh in the minds of many young parents, the discussion regarding vaccination has had a strong change and impact since. The result – many more parents opting to ignore vaccinations for their children, much to the alarm and worry of doctors and healthcare professionals. Instead, …