(2008/09/07)
When I was a kid, I had to walk or bike to school.
(2008/09/07)
Kelly had an epiphany in her car two years ago on a lunch break.
(2008/09/07)
It’s no doubt a question worth asking before undergoing angioplasty: What is the risk of dying from this balloon procedure?
(2008/09/07)
Explanation: This rare genetic recessive disorder causes rapid premature aging and begins in adolescence or early adulthood. Also known as Progeria of Adulthood, it affects tissue throughout the body and sufferers often look as if they are 20 or 30 years older.
(2008/09/02)
La Crosse County Public Health Nursing and the La Crosse County Health Department offer all sorts of clinics and screenings for free or at reduced cost.
(2008/09/02)
With children returning to school, their schedules change and so do eating habits.
(2008/09/02)
What is it: This common disorder occurs when throat muscles relax and cause breathing to repeatedly stop or become very shallow. Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes and occur up to 30 times an hour. After a pause, normal breathing may resume with a loud snort or choking sound. Sufferers often snore loudly. A University of Wisconsin study published this month shows that over an 18-year period, people with severe, untreated sleep apnea died at a rate more than three times that of those without apnea.
(2008/09/02)
Don’t be surprised if your doctor orders a vitamin D test during your next physical.
(2008/08/26)
Dr. Richard Strand has been seeing dental patients in La Crosse for 45 years.
(2008/08/26)
Dawne Nelson and Kathy Chapiewsky wanted to lose weight and feel better.
(2008/08/26)
August officially is Cataract Awareness Month, although that seems a bit of a misnomer considering those who have cataracts surely are aware they exist.
(2008/08/26)
What is it? This painful, progressive condition, also called median nerve entrapment, occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist. It’s more common in women and affects up to 10 percent of the population.
(2008/08/26)
Is it harder for you to walk uphill or downhill? It’s a serious question and I’ve heard it answered equally both ways. Technically, we’re stronger when we walk downhill or downstairs, but for many people it’s not as comfortable.
(2008/08/19)
As a child, Kathryn Murphy organized cancer fundraisers in her backyard, calling them “Karnival for Kids.”
(2008/08/19)
Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin — a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye.
(2008/08/19)
A recent research study concludes that breast self-exams may not help save women’s lives.
(2008/08/19)
Ragweed’s clock is in nature. Aug. 15 is the official opening of ragweed season, with just the right amount of diminishing daylight and increasing night length to stimulate the plant to pollinate, said George Fulford, a physician assistant with Allergy Associates in La Crosse. The season peaks the last two weeks of August, and ragweed is gone by Sept. 15.
(2008/08/19)
Happiness is the most important thing in life simply because when given a choice, there's little choice at all. Would you choose happiness over love, happiness over wealth, happiness over health? Having to totally and completely give one up in choosing the other is not a likely choice. And yet, do they not depend one upon the other?
(2008/08/12)
Bowling, playing golf and playing tennis with Nintendo Wii Sports video games are a lot of fun but not much of a workout.
(2008/08/12)
What’s nice about living in a medical community is nurses, doctors and other medical personnel are hanging out everywhere and can spring into action when needed.
(2008/08/12)
After Silvia Clarke lost a sales executive job she had held for 18 years, the Miami Shores, Fla., wife and mother of two worried about how she would support her family of four as the household’s primary wage earner.
(2008/08/12)
Grip strength is an under-appreciated attribute. We don’t think about it until it lets us down. It doesn’t matter if we’re a football player unable to make a tackle because the runner breaks free from our grasp, or if we’re a gardener unable to pull a tenacious weed from the ground.
(2008/08/12)
The syndrome: It’s a rare, neurological disorder in which you feel as if your hand is possessed. Although you can feel sensation in the affected hand, you think the hand is not part of your body and that you have no control over its movement.
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