If you like to travel, are an ex-pat, or live outside of the US, you may be considering how you can advance your career in nursing from outside of your home country. Luckily, nursing is one of the professions where it is easy to progress without having to remain in one place, allowing you to train, practice and make progress in your career from any location in the world. Here … [Read more...]
The Perils of Modern Living: 6 Known Causes of Cancer You Should Avoid
Cancer is a horrible and often terminal disease that presents a wide spectrum of symptoms. Doctors complete a variety of treatments to eliminate cancer and increase a patient's odds of survival. The treatments often include radiation or chemotherapy along with surgical removal of tumors, cells, and cancerous growths. To evaluate your risk of developing the disease, you can … [Read more...]
Foods You Should Eat and Avoid For A Healthy Gut
Over the years, gut health has become an obsession for people who want to live healthily. And this is something that definitely deserves attention if you want your body and brain functioning optimally. Essentially, your gut is made of a host of microbes, both good and bad ones. While you cannot completely get rid of the bad ones, a balance between the good and bad bacteria is … [Read more...]
In Working Order and Ready to Go: 4 Crucial Anesthesia Cart Maintenance Tips
If a doctor, nurse, or another healthcare professional is forced to use an organized medical cart, it may reduce their treatment time, while increasing stress and frustration. By building certain habits to keep a medical cart organized, it's possible to maintain an effective and productive work environment. It's important to note, the way a medical cart is organized will … [Read more...]
Reasons Why you Must Honor the Regular Dental Visits
Most people will never miss their health checkups, but when it comes to a dental checkup, it can easily go by without going to the dentist. The dental check-up is as equally important. Not everyone goes for dental visits as required every six months. In case you were thinking of skipping your dental appointment, you might want to give it a second thought. If you do not see … [Read more...]
Workplace depression – How to fight it and be a winner
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” ― J.K. Rowling Life is not … [Read more...]
The Rising Trend of Digital Health Wearables
The medical field is one that is forever changing, evolving, finding new discoveries, and truly pushing the envelope on what is possible. With that said, there are plenty of trends that come and go, and then there are those that really stick and help to shape the field as it moves forward. One trend that has been steadily growing over the past couple of years and showing real … [Read more...]
Sciatica During Pregnancy
Being able to have children is a beautiful thing, however, growing a baby inside of you can add some physical and emotional strains to your body. You have probably already been warned by family and friends about morning sickness, mood swings and tiredness but has anyone mentioned sciatica? A staggering 50% to 80% of women experience sciatica during their pregnancy. What Is … [Read more...]
4 Signs That You Have Gum Disease
Did you know that gum disease affects about half of the adult population in the United States? This is a little less than 65 million people! It is one of the most common reasons why people visit the dentist’s office. Gum disease is also known as periodontal disease and it has serious consequences for dental health. It is a chronic disease that can occur quickly in different … [Read more...]
7 Crucial Pieces of Advice on How to Protect Your Hearing
As the years creep past you may notice the volume numbers on your television creeping up. You are not alone. The noisy modern world is wreaking havoc on our ears. As people are living longer, they are spending more of their lives suffering from hearing impairment. But that does not mean we have to resign ourselves to this fate. There are steps you can take to prevent hearing … [Read more...]
