A drug-resistant staph infection has been spreading among gay men. MRSA started appearing outside hospitals in San Francisco, New York, Boston & Los Angeles. Sexually active gay men in San Francisco are 13 times more likely to be infected than their heterosexual neighbors, the researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
A researcher at the […]
May is officially National Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Lyme Disease is caused by a bacterium known as Borrelia burgdorferi. This bacterium is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged ticks.
Lyme Disease can often be misdiagnosed, especially in later stages of the disorder, and can cause a lot of miserable symptoms until treated properly. […]
A White House report released on Friday said that teenagers, depression and pot smoking are a dangerous combination that can lead to mental illness, dependency and suicidal thoughts. The report by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy stated that a teen who has been depressed at some point in the past year is […]
According to the American Cancer Society, most of the more than 1 million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer diagnosed yearly in the United States are considered to be sun-related.
In 2007, melanoma accounted for almost 60,000 cases of skin cancer. Out of the almost 11,000 deaths from skin cancer last year, 8,100 were from melanoma.
Knowing what […]
It used to be the standard for detecting melanoma was using what dermatologists called the “ABCDE” acronym.
A stands for Asymmetry
B stands for Border
C for Color
D for Diameter
E for Evolving or changing
Using this method, a dermatologist or physician will look for moles that are not symmetrical, the borders are not round, the color is not typical […]
A new study revealed that heart attack symptoms in women under the age of 55 get missed or dismissed. The study included 30 women who were under the age of 55, with an average age of 48, who previously had heart attacks. All of these women were interviewed within a week of leaving the hospital […]
There are four different categories for melanoma. Three of these types of melanoma begin in and live in the top layer of the skin - in situ - that can later become invasive. The fourth type of melanoma is invasive from the beginning. Invasive melanomas are more dangerous because they are living in deeper layers […]
Goodness, I never knew that skin cancer would be such a heated topic on here. Some woman even left a comment about how my picture of a woman sunbathing was “deceiving” because the commenter thinks that she is African-American and not Caucasian. Big deal! It is just a picture of someone sunbathing.
I will always stand by my […]
A recent research study found that men are more than 1 1/2 times likely than women to suffer from cognitive difficulties.
“These findings are in contrast to studies which have found more women than men [or an equal proportion] have dementia, and suggest there’s a delayed progression to dementia in men,” study author Rosebud Roberts, of […]
Skin cancer is growing more and more common and getting the facts out there and raising awareness is so crucial if our country wants to get a handle on it. What is really sad is that skin cancer is diagnosed more than any other type of cancer, yet it is the one cancer that is […]
