Category: Health

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. For a decade, my homebody husband and I would typically settle into the couch after dinner, looking at our … Read More

It’s hard to miss the overflowing bowl of condoms at the entrance of the gym. Some University of Mississippi students walking past after their workout snicker and point, and … Read More

Working out and exercising are great ways to help build up your body and push various processes within it in the direction they need to go. However, getting everyone up … Read More

Like many health care workers, I am required to receive my annual flu shot by the end of October. Every year, I wait until the last possible day to get … Read More

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. People of most racial and ethnic groups in the country are more likely to die from a heart-related … Read More

I used to think I had a decent relationship with death. Or at least, it didn’t register in my anxiety’s greatest hits. But when the pandemic hit and death was … Read More

If you look up at the sky on a clear day, you might notice little cobweb-like structures drifting across your field of vision. They are known as floaters or, more … Read More

As children, sisters Amaris and Dominique Elston were inseparable. Their parents remember the two of them sharing everything and always having each others’ backs, no matter the situation.  That bond … Read More

A pair of New Jersey sisters are both battling ‘nightmare’ stage 4 colon cancers together after both were diagnosed with the disease in their thirties.  In February 2021, Eloisa Oquendo sought … Read More

A unique peek inside the human brain may help explain how it clears away waste like the kind that can build up and lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Brain cells … Read More