Francisca Terrazas of El Paso, Texas, has Alzheimer’s disease and is the subject of her daughter’s blog.
Francisca Terrazas could not be left alone.
She burned her foot pouring boiling water over an ant hill in her driveway. She would wander for hours searching for aluminum cans. The effects of Alzheimer’s disease had taken hold.
Wherever she goes, Nadine Devilme carries with her a small bag decorated with yellow ducks and filled with her most treasured possessions: photographs of herself pregnant, a tiny blue Bible inscribed with her infant daughter’s name, her daughter’s records from the pediatrician, and the dried up remnants of her umbilical cord.
Your racial and ethnic background can shape many aspects of your life: the type of food you eat, where you live, and your political views.
Now a new survey suggests that how you sleep and what you do before you hit the hay — whether it’s watch TV, pray, or have sex — varies by ethnic group as well.
Some women avoid drinking calorie-filled cocktails, wine, and beer because they’re worried about packing on the pounds. Now, a new study suggests that women who are moderate drinkers actually tend to gain less weight over time than teetotalers.
Do you cough, wheeze, or get short of breath when you exercise in cold weather? You could have asthma, but you’ve got plenty of company. Exercise-induced asthma is surprisingly common among people who work out in cold climates, whether they’re jogging around the neighborhood or gunning for gold in Vancouver.
The task set by a food blogger seemed deceptively simple: Eat real food for a month.
More than 900 people signed up for the challenge, and some were confident that it would not be difficult to avoid processed foods for 28 days.
But in the age of potato powders, cheese in a squirt can and microwaveable meals, eating only “real food” turned out to be much more difficult.
On Day One of the challenge, blogger Jennifer McGruther gave this instruction: Purge your pantry of processed foods.
By David Martin, CNN
Diana Tirpak was so sure her leukemia was going to kill her, she bought a suit for her husband, Jake, to wear at her funeral.
“I was bound and determined he was going to look fine at the funeral,” says Tirpak, 68, a retired school nurse in Hudson, Ohio.
Until recently, Tirpak would have faced a death sentence without a bone marrow transplant. But Tirpak’s physician, Dr. Mary Laughlin, turned to something deemed medical waste until recently: umbilical cord blood.
Atrazine, a weed killer widely used in the Midwestern United States and other agricultural areas of the world, can chemically “castrate” male frogs and turn some into females, according to a new study.
Watch President Obama unveil his new health care proposal, live on CNN and CNN.com and 1:45 p.m. ET.
Washington (CNN) — In a last-ditch attempt to craft a bipartisan health care reform bill, President Obama will release a new proposal Wednesday that will include Republican ideas on tort reform and health savings accounts, according to Democratic officials familiar with the plans.
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan targeted in roadside bomb attacks will be pulled from duty and examined for 24 hours before being cleared for battle again, Pentagon officials told CNN Tuesday.
Eating the wrong food and gaining too much weight can clog arteries with fatty deposits, potentially leading to life-threatening heart attacks and strokes.
From Dana Bash, CNN
Several senior congressional Democratic sources told CNN after Thursday’s bipartisan summit that Democrats’ plans on health care are not likely to differ much Friday from what they were Wednesday.
Nashville, Tennessee — When Ryan Wallace got a diagnosis of autism at age 2, his parents never thought they’d hear him speak.
“He used to make noises. When he wanted something he would just point,” says Ryan’s father, Gerald David Wallace. “Or he would scream.”
Therapists say that’s not unusual for someone with Ryan’s condition. According to doctors, many children with autism have difficulty understanding information from the outside world.
