Archive for the ‘Health & Wellness’ Category

‘Open Wide!’ exhibit displays toys kids have cut their teeth on

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By Alexis Korman If your kids need some help remembering to brush their teeth, maybe you can find inspiration in the classics.We’re talking real classics — like a Barbie Dentist behind glass and a Hopalong Cassidy cowboy toothbrush. An exhibit at the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore features these and about 50 other “toothy [...]

Charities Wish for “Regifting” this Christmas

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Public Relations Firm with No Boundaries More than 1,000 charities join The Giving Effect seeking your unwanted gifts Bears on Patrol, a Carrollton, GA nonprofit, collects stuffed animals for police officers to give to children in crisis situations. They are one of more than 1,000 cause-based organizations registered on The Giving Effect (www.thegivingeffect.com (http://www NULL.thegivingeffect [...]

Radiation Worries for Children in Dentists’ Chairs

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Public Relations and Communications Firm With No Boundaries By Ralph Kline Because children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to radiation, doctors three years ago mounted a national campaign to protect them by reducing diagnostic radiation to only those levels seen as absolutely necessary. It is a message that has resonated in many clinics and hospitals. [...]

Smile and make your kids happy

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By Paul Fitzgerald Parents and teachers across the USA and Canada will now have the opportunity to be a part of history all with the click of a mouse. You see, starting on October 4, 2010, the Happier Kids Now On-line Expo will be launched – the first interactive cyber event of its kind. The [...]

Ethnic Diversity Exists Among Patients: Study

The Canadian Press Cystic fibrosis (CF) has long been thought of by most people as a disease affecting only Caucasians. While some experts asserted this was not the case, they did not have the data to correct this misconception. Now they do. A new North American study led by researchers at The Hospital for Sick [...]

Watch those gums, you may just have diabetes

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By Paul W. Fitzgerald It’s a staggering fact that thousands of Americans are suffering from diabetes and they don’t even know it. On the front lines in helping people detect the early warning signs of this disease is Dr. Paul Taxin (http://www NULL.taxindental NULL.com), a neuromuscular dentist here in Hopewell Junction, NY (http://www NULL.taxindental NULL.com). [...]

Bicycling, Brisk Walking Help Women Control Weight

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By Todd Datz – Premenopausal women who make even small increases in the amount of time they spend bicycling or walking briskly every day decrease their risk of gaining weight, according to a new study by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study appears in the June 28, 2010 issue of [...]

Nutrition and Supplements Improve Outcomes in Men with Prostate Cancer: Dr. James Meschino

(http://magazinesandbox NULL.saltandpeppermedianews NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/James NULL.jpg) By Pamela Feldman – A large number of world renowned doctors are keeping a close eye on Toronto, ON these days. More specifically, they have their attention drawn to Dr. James Meschino, a popular health and wellness expert and author of The Meschino Optimal Living Program – 7 Steps To A [...]