Blind Woman To Wed After Triple Transplant

By Ernie Mundell HealthDay News    Stricken with cancer in infancy, Jessica Lopez endured tumor-fighting treatments that saved her young life but also left her with lasting heart damage.    By the time she reached her early 30s, Lopez, who was left blind by her cancer, also found herself in triple-organ failure — her heart, …

Healthy Phrases For A Healthy Vocabulary

by Dictionary Scoop    Health is an important issue for everyone, and our language is proof of that! English offers us many health-related idioms with very interesting origins.  To discover the meaning and roots of ten of them, read on! 1-An apple a day keeps the doctor away    . You were probably just a child the first time …

Doctor Rewarded For Years Of Giving

by Kevin Burton    Prepare your heart and mind for some good news, today from the medical profession.    The Good News Network is good medicine itself. We can’t deny or ignore completely the chaos around us, but we can rejoice when our fellow humans go above and beyond to help.    We have two …

Boy Goes Blind Because Of Junk-Food Diet

by Kevin Burton     An 8-year-old Malaysian boy found out the hard way, the importance of a healthy diet.    According to multiple reports, the boy went blind suddenly one day while sitting in school. The boy was said to have had a diet consisting of only chicken nuggets, sausages and cookies, iHeart reported.    …

Free Surgery Saves Vision Of Young Child

by Kevin Burton    There is great news in this article: a young boy’s vision has been saved.     But by the time you get done reading it, you will realize that some things that are routine in the US are not routine elsewhere. The challenges that blind people face here are formidable, but people …

Facts You Might Not Know About M*A*S*H

by Interestingfacts.com    From its premiere on CBS in Sept. 1972 through its historic series finale watched by more than 106 million Americans in Feb. 1983, M*A*S*H changed television forever.     The series followed the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War of the early 1950s and seamlessly blended comedy and drama like never before. …

Blind Women Helping Detect Breast Cancer

   In a bare room in a remote government-run primary health center in Vapi, a city in the south-west Indian state of Gujarat, Meenakshi Gupta holds a diagram of a woman’s breast with five Braille-marked orientation tapes pasted on it. Speaking to the woman sitting on the bed, she says: “I’ll paste these skin-friendly tapes on your …

Doctor Runs The Extra Mile To Do Surgery

by Kevin Burton Your favorite news source is going to bring you down chances are, with relentless bad news. So every now and then we celebrate the positive on Page 7. It’s an idea that comes from Philippians 4:8 (KJV) “Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just whatsoever …

The Shocker Desk Enjoying A Second Life

by Kevin Burton    The man cave downstairs is certified glorious. I should know, I’m the proprietor and I’m certifiable.    The man cave houses, among other things, the Shocker desk.  And in that Shocker desk, among other things, is a prescription pad.    That I will explain later.    I told you yesterday about …