Vengeful Husband Sues Ex-wife For Secondhand Smoke Illness Charleston, SC 3/24/05- After 13 years of marriage, a Florida man divorces his wife and sues her, claiming his wife’s 2 to 3 pack-a-day smoking habit caused him to contract life-threatening lung cancer in Palm Beach (case id 501997CA01158XXONAN) When the effects of secondhand smoke becomes so bad that a husband is willing to sue his ex-wife, a woman he once loved, people must begin to open their eyes to the dangers ...

How To Lower Health Dangers: Get More Out Of Your Doctor's Appointment Through Better Communication We all know the frustration: you walk into the doctor’s office for your appointment with the doctor or nurse practitioner You wait for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour And when you’re finally in the room, you get 10 minutes in which your healthcare provider looks at your chart, asks for your “main complaint” and then writes a prescription or sends you to another ...

Work Stress Part 1: Add Fun To The Work Place Having fun with your co-workers is an ideal way to remove stress It can be done easily so that it doesn't disrupt work or take time away from work But adding fun activities can lighten the mood in a stressful time can increase productivity and job performance Which will lead give you more time, to spare for fun activities Many people believe playing practical jokes on people in the office is a fun way to relieve ...

The Importance Of Employee Drug Testing Employers entrust their workers with a vast array of responsibilities in their businesses Many employers feel it is necessary for prospective employees to submit to a pre-employment drug screening This is especially true in industries that require the use of heavy machinery such as forklift drivers, assembly workers and even driversIn the United States, we are fortunate to have strict guidelines for workplace safety Employers are bound by law to provide a safe working ...

Five Minutes Can Spare A Life! You may have heard about MRSA recently in the news, in passing, or maybe you heard that someone may have even died from "some type of staph infection" MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is a lethal form of bacteria which is resistant to many antibiotics Most often, staph infections - including MRSA pose a strong threat to patients (with weakened immune systems), who are hospitalized or in other healthcare facilities(For more detailed information about MRSA, ...

Top 10 Things To Do If You Have A Mental Illness If you’re reading this book, chances are that you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a mental illness This is a scary time, filled with lots of questions, strange buzz words, and people pushing drugs at you In the best case scenario, you need to know that you’re not alone In the worst case, you need to know that you can survive this Here’s what I, a ...

How To Pick The Perfect Holistic Health Practitioner For You Therapists, physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, body workers and energy workers need to be interviewed and checked out just like your roofer! I don't know about you but finding a good roofer is might- near- impossible Psychological outcome research has shown that half of the therapists make us better and the other half makes us worse This means we need to choose wisely You do not need to continue to pay someone if you are not making dynamic progress ...

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Basics Did you know that one in every one hundred people is affected by what is known as carpal tunnel syndrome at some point in their life? While commonly found in women in the thirty to fifty-year age range, carpal tunnel syndrome can affect nearly anyone, from assembly line workers, to surgeons and dentists, to secretaries and computer data entry personnel, to even those who play musical instruments or video games Carpal tunnel syndrome is a very painful and progressive condition that occurs in the ...

What Is An Addiction? 'The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us' -- Alcoholics Anonymous An addiction is a psychological and physiological dependance on a substance or activity There are many common addictions, some include: nicotine, illicit drugs, alcohol, food, sex, and gambling Physiological dependence means that the body has become so accustomed to a drug or drug's and thinks it needs such chemicals to function When a person addicted to a drug starts going through withdrawals, physiological dependence and the pain it ...

The Importance Of Sleep The importance of sleep In this day and age it is becoming increasingly likely that you wont get enough sleep at night Many people have a hectic lifestyle, juggling a high stress job with family life, and don't even think about trying to incorporate a social life in there Every thing is going on so fast these days that no one is ready to rest since they fear if they sleep someone other may go ahead of him Many have become so intellectual ...