Three-day weekend! Lake! Pool! Sun! Before you indulge in all the sun worship, though, think about your largest organ – your skin. No reason to risk frying your skin, increasing your chances of skin cancer, for a moment of fun.... Read More
I cannot keep vaccines straight in my mind. It’s easy for them to run together in my ol’ gray matter, especially vaccination schedules. Thankfully, there’s Vaccines.gov, which covers anything and everything related to vaccines. It is a great site for... Read More
Skip the surprise party and the Cheese of the Month Club, the World Health Organization (WHO) only wants one thing for it’s 63rd year of impacting global health – action against the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Antibiotics were heralded as... Read More
Today is National Start! Walking Day. It is a great day to make a commitment to increasing your physical activity through walking 30 minutes each day by getting up today – wherever you are – and walking. The American Heart... Read More
Heart disease, cancer, asthma – they all impact people worldwide. Yet, when thinking about global health, we often think of communicable diseases – AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, co-founder of Partners in Health talks more about reframing... Read More
Today marks the beginning of National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week. Young adults? Cancer? Absolutely. It happens all the time, and we’re not doing enough to help the nearly 70,000 adolescents and young adults (AYA), those ages 15 to 39,... Read More
You wouldn’t think wealthy women ages 15 to 39 bear a greater burden of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive and deadliest of skin cancers. But they do. The culprit? Ultraviolet (UV) light exposure, most of which is attributable to tanning.... Read More
Since I awoke Friday morning to the news of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, I cannot shake the thoughts of our Japanese nursing colleagues. I have said many prayers for them as they live and work through this and ongoing... Read More
Hiney. Tail. Rear-end. A$$. Tush. Badonkadonk. There is an ever-growing list of euphemisms for the gluteus maximus. Not too many for the colon, though. It’s not sexy. What is even less sexier? Colon, or colorectal, cancer. Yet, according to the... Read More
In honor of National Cancer Prevention Month, I am sharing one of my favorite resources – the World Tobacco Atlas. It has great information and lovely maps and infographs. Tobacco is the world’s most preventable cause of cancer. It kills... Read More