MRSA Notes

We bought a gym after Marshall left the hospital last year, mostly for his physical therapy, but this IS a good reason to buy one for yourself, rather than take the risk at the local gym.
Also, we don’t hear as much as we [...]

…how important it is to wash your hands.  Yes, all the time.  Obsessive-compulsively.From press-citizen.com | Health Columns :
If you need a simple resolution for 2006, here’s a suggestion: Get in the hand-washing habit. It’s the most important thing you can do to avoid [...]

I hope that those of you who won the National Body Challenge books received your books yesterday - I know several of us did, and what a great book! I hope you will watch the show, regardless, because having a healthy body is your first step for fighting disease of any sort!

I only have one entry to win one of 3 companion books to the Discovery Health Body Challenge Series! Don’t let those 2 useful and free books go unclaimed.

The Discovery Channel is running their 3rd annual National Body Challenge for their viewers and has generously offered MRSA Resources 3 of the series companion books to give away to our readers! Read to the end of this article to see how to win one of them!
Here is more information about the National Body [...]

This is from About.com, which is one of my favorite reference web sites for almost everything. Unfortunately, they don’t have a good MRSA section, the only one they have is in reference to MRSA in children:
A study in patients carrying potentially harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Hemophilus influenzae, demonstrated that [...]

I hope you will consider joining us at the Focus on Wellness study group. Tomorrow we begin week 1 in Dr. Andrew Weil’s 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, and are really looking forward to learning how to improve our overall health and especially our immune systems. This is so important if you have [...]

Today is an exciting day. I have been waiting for the official beginning of our Wellness Study group since Christina and I first began discussing the idea. I’d like to encourage anyone who can to share information about what has helped to get you better. Improvement is the goal here, in little [...]

Eww–something you may not have thought of…
Tainted Makeup Revealed
Unclean Hands To Blame

The makeup counter is where you try it before you buy it.
The counters concern Rowan University biological science professor Elizabeth Brooks.
“You can go and help yourself, which is a convenient thing for women, but it also [...]

Dr. Taraneh Ravazi, M.D., blogging for Google, offered up a very helpful, timely and relevant article about the flu shot and general flu information. This, as Maureen said a day or two ago, is so important for those of us with lowered immune systems to be aware of. Here is a snippet of [...]