So this video might not make you cry, but the story probably will. Michael Ferns, a senior at St. Clairsville High in Clairsville, OH, gave up a touchdown one yard from the end zone so that his teammate, Logan Thompson, whose father died two days before, could score instead.
Being good-looking may be beneficial to a woman’s career—unless her boss is also an attractive female, as new research finds that women at the peak of their fertility tend to hold a sharper competitive edge toward other women they find attractive.
Many kids across the United States spent their Halloween dressed up in scary costumes while running around collecting as much candy as possible from their neighbors. Two-year-old Evelyn Sherman, however, spent her Halloween receiving the greatest treat of all: a new kidney and a new life.
White Americans with a few bucks in their pockets have a better chance of getting their lives saved by CPR than minorities on the wrong side of the poverty line, according to new research.
So far I've never been totally successful in quitting smoking. Today is day 13 since my last cigarette. No worries, I'm not going to over do this topic moving forward but thought I'd get some thoughts out and maybe discourage a few from starting or encourage a few to quit.
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and while all the pink we see on the players during NFL games in October mainly focuses our attention on how the disease affects women and what they can do about it, we should also keep in mind (or learn) that men, too, can contract breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, one in 1,000 men will fall victim to the disease, which claims the life of at least one man every day.
As the old saying goes, milk does a body good. But in addition to strong teeth and healthy bones, milk may also have the power to protect against HIV.
I try to post both topics of general interest and personal stories. This is from the personal files. I am now a real full fledged adult, or so they tell me, and statistically half way through life. I’ve never been one to read labels on food or buy lite anything. Today for the first time as an adult, I had a physical or as the kids’ pediatrician calls them, “well visits.”
The window washers at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN, kind of make 'Patch Adams' seem like a big old meany. Two of the hospital's three-man window washing team dressed up like Spider-Man, and then rappelled down the side of the building, lifting childrens' spirits while cleaning windows. But yeah, a clown nose is good too.
During a visit to the doctor, we almost always grab a waiting-room magazine to take our mind off what's to come. But health officials say those very periodicals could pose a health risk and actually make people sick, particularly if they're left out for a lengthy period of time and handled by multitudes of people.
