Archive for October, 2008

Let Your Sexual Partner’s Know About STD’s By E-Card

Researchers have found a new way for people who have tested for STD’s to tell their sexual partners without feeling embarrassed. Public health educators analyzed the effects that inSPOT.org would have on people. The website was launched in 2004 and is a place that lets sexual partners notify each through an e-card if they have been exposed to an STD.

Thousands Attend Breast Cancer Walk

Close to 18,000 people participated in the 5km walk that was a part of the American Cancer Society’s 11th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. There were also close to 2,000 other breast cancer patients and ones that were not patients who came to help raise money for the different programs that would help to fund research, support breast cancer patients, and for advocacy.

10 Ways To Stay Energized Through The Day

Many of us have a hard time trying to focus throughout the day. We have such busy lives that our systems are put into shock and we feel completely drained throughout the whole day. There are ways to keep us energized and ready to tackle every day.

Helping Your Body To Absorb Calcium Supplements

It is important for women to take calcium supplements especially when they have reached menopause or are close to reaching it. It is around this time that many women begin to experience thin bones and calcium helps to keep them strong. There are ways to help your body to absorb the calcium.

Hay Fever

Many people think that the hay fever means that you are allergic to hay. This is incorrect - but not very wrong off the mark. The correct term that most doctors use is allergic rhinitis. While hay can cause this allergic reaction to can many other different substances.

Rhinitis simply mean “irritation of the nose” and is a derivative of the work rhino - which means nose. Allergic rhinitis occurs during a season known as “seasonal allergic rhinitis”. When someone is experiencing it throughout the whole year it is referred to as “perennial allergic rhinitis”.