Author Archives: Health

What to Do With Your Old Glasses After Lasik Surgery

Lasik is a surgical procedure that offers some wonderful results, enabling an individual to enjoy perfect vision, often better than 20/20, without relying anymore on having to wear corrective prescription eyeglasses. Although most men and women who undergo successful lasik surgery feel like celebrating their independence from eyeglasses by quickly throwing their old pairs of… Read More »

New Jersey man who contracted flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing has forearms, hands amputated, family says

Angel Perez, 60, had his forearms and hands amputated this week, part of his battle since contracting a flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing in New Jersey.  (Fox 29) A New Jersey man who got infected with flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing in early July underwent surgery this week to have his forearms and hands amputated, his family… Read More »

Sports Massage: An Important Aspect of a Serious Athlete's Regimen

If you are a serious athlete or even a recreational athlete then you already know that your daily regiment prepares you for optimal use of your skills and energies for your favored sporting event. However, continuous exercise and fitness regimen also causes extreme soreness and muscle tension that gets increasingly worse if you do not… Read More »

China's Liaoning culls more than 8,000 hogs after African swine fever outbreak

BEIJING (Reuters) – Northeast China’s Liaoning province has now culled 8,116 hogs in response to an outbreak of African swine fever earlier this month, the provincial animal husbandry bureau told Reuters on Wednesday. No new cases have been discovered in provincial capital Shenyang, where the deadly fever has so far been contained, since the outbreak… Read More »