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Hospital volunteers are often referred to by staff as the heart and soul of the operation. Nurses, doctors and hospital administrators lean on their volunteers for more than just simple tasks. They bring a ray of light to dark moments in patients’ lives, and they enrich the hospital’s environment by being helpful and caring to […]
“There’s no pill you can take.” That’s the bottom line when it comes to fad diets, according to nutritionists like Kim Uyak of Charleston-based Physician’s Plan Weight Loss and Wellness. There is no magical meal plan that will improve the health of every person who tries it. Still, over the course of each year, millions […]
We live in South Carolina, and everyone knows it is humid, hot and buggy. But while most people are aware of these environmental factors, few take into account the true effects of the environment on our health. “Pretty much everything goes back to environment,” said Dr. William Weirs, an expert at North Charleston’s Center for […]
In 1974, Tommy John was a 31-year-old Major League pitcher with an impressive professional resume and an aching left elbow. Had it not been for a Los Angeles Dodgers team physician, John might have given up on his budding baseball career, his name relegated to the fading memories of diehard followers of the Indians, White […]
Turns out, those old Western movies may just have had it right. You know, when kindly old Doc hands the wounded cowboy a bottle of whiskey and a rifle bullet and rasps, “Down this and bite the bullet while I dig out the slug.” For almost as long as history has been recorded, healers have […]
If someone asked you to name three of your all-time favorite fragrances, what would they be? Many of us – in fact, most of us – would hearken back to our earliest years, citing a waft of our mother’s or grandmother’s cooking, a cozy holiday scent or a cologne or perfume on the wrists of […]