Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and
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4 min read Charles O’Byrne was a talented athlete who gained weight after he stopped playing football. In denial of how big he was getting, he reached an all-time high of over 500 pounds. Here, O'Byrne recounts the journey of rediscovering self-disciplinea transformation that started from a moment of brutal self-reflection. I ALWAYS SAY there
10 min read IN JUNE OF 2024, while on a run out of town, I was blindsided from behind by a cyclist resulting in a fractured hip that required emergency surgery. A rod was inserted in my right femur—the largest bone in the leg—with two screws attached to stabilize my femoral neck and pelvis. Twenty-four
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have