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Michele has been an R.N. for almost 30 years in a variety of settings from Medical Surgical care to ER to homecare businesses and has a masters degree in Health Services administration. Michele writes on a broad variety of topics though healthcare is often

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Home & Garden > Vegetables, Herbs & Fruits Get growing naturally: Start your seeds indoors: 2 of 28

Spring is approaching; time to get a jump on this year's growing season. Sprouting seeds indoors will give you a head start and a way to grow flowers and plants that might not be sold at your neighborhood nursery. Deciding what to grow: Not all seeds need to be started indoors; those that are slow growing or need extra growi...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values Is health more important than wealth?: 1 of 14

Health and wealth, two words that rhyme so well but often do not occur together. Good health is clearly preferable but if one does not have good health, then it is better to have some wealth to ease the burden. Money cannot replace the lack of health, but it goes a long way to make life easier, more comfortable and reduce a ...
Health & Fitness > Disease Prevention How to prevent back pain: 1 of 10

"All I did was reach to pick up that toy on the ground and ..." We naturally think that if we only hadn't tried to reach, pull, lift or stretch to get that last object; we wouldn't be experiencing the spasms surging through our lower backs right now. In reality, back pain is the result of many years of strain, heavy lifting,...
Health & Fitness > Cancer Detection and treatment of breast cancer: 2 of 19

Breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast no longer grow and divide properly. This overgrowth of cancer cells take over and invade healthy cells and breast tissue. The most common location of breast cancer is in the mammary ducts. Mammary ducts connect the milk producing lobule glands, located deep in the breast tissue, ...
Health & Fitness > Medical Concerns & Issues Options for diagnosing and treating chronic pain: 2 of 14

Chronic pain can be life consuming. Pain can not be seen or felt by others making it hard for them to truly understand what the sufferer is going through. The American Academy of Pain Management estimates that 50 million Americans live in chronic pain. Chronic pain is diagnosed as pain that lasts longer than six months which...
Personal Finance > Credit Cards Should teens have credit cards?: 7 of 47

Using a credit card responsibly requires maturity, restraint and discipline. Teens are given the responsibility to drive cars safely. They must show restraint to keep their cell phone usage within phone plan limits. Disciplined teens working part time jobs must perform tasks given accurately and possess the maturity to run a...
Health & Fitness > Aging & Longevity Should elderly patients be cared for by family members or by health care professionals?: 5 of 28

The care of an aging parent should be performed by the people who will most be able to provide for their unique healthcare needs within the resources, both financial and emotional, of the family members entrusted with the decision. There is never a cut and dried answer as to how and who should provide for a loved one but wit...
Entertainment > TV News & Commentary Is anyone else tired of American Idol: 2 of 11

No, I am not tired of American Idol. I admit that this is only the second season I have regularly watched it but it is one of the few weekly shows I look forward to seeing. This year they made changes from last year by adding a new judge, putting the contestants up in a fancy mansion and other small changes in the rules. The...
Health & Fitness > Reproductive Health Issues How to prevent yeast infections: 1 of 5

Preventing a yeast infection can become an obsession if you have been unfortunate enough to have had several in the past. One thing that is important to remember is that yeast can normally "live" in a woman's vagina. It is not that a woman has been invaded by a foreign fungus, but in reality the normal balance of yeast and b...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Summer Camps & Fun Too old for camp and too young for a job: Keeping older children busy in the summer: 1 of 5

Each year while my son was growing up, a summer full of mixed activities was planned. Day camp weeks, sleep away weeks, vacation time and down time. This year my son did not want to go to any of the camps he had gone to in the past, including last year's month long sleep away camp which, financially, was fine with me. Luckil...