health issues

Hey it's Gary again.  Sorry, I blacked out for a couple of days and haven't written, but right now, it's been exactly 6 days since my last cigarette.  Never realized that truly quitting something as bad as smoking could be so hard.  Seems like your body would actually "help" you give up something so harmful, but it actually fights you for that addiction...

Amelia Hope Thomas is the 8 month old daughter of Mich and Brook Thomas and suffers from a disease called "Hurlers". As you can tell from her picture, she's beautiful and in hopes of helping her beat this disease, she'll undergo a bone marrow transplant at Amplatz Children's Hospital within the next 30 days.

Hey its Gary McCoy and last Friday, May 25th at 12 noon, I ran out of cigarettes.  And then I quit 'em.  With no real planning or forethought, I just decided I'd smoked long enough.  Sure, people have told me for years about the dangers of smoking.

Skinny jeans may be fashionable, but if they are too skinny they may cause permanent nerve damage. That is the downside of being trendy according to Karen Boyle, a doctor at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. In fact, folks who like to keep things tight on their bottom half run the risk of developing a condition with a scary name.

In an incident that’s sure to rattle your faith in emergency services, a 911 dispatcher in Maryland nodded off and started snoring after taking a panicked call from a woman whose husband had stopped breathing. Yeesh. Not a great time to fall asleep on the job, guy.

We all know that sugar can make you fat. But we eat it anyway because it’s really good. So what if we were to tell you sugar can also make you dumb? Would you put down your Big Gulp and step away from your Snickers?

A Safeway employee in Northern California was rewarded for heroically coming to the rescue of a pregnant women being assaulted by her boyfriend inside the grocery store in a shocking way. He was suspended by his bosses.

We’ve watched the guys at Epic Meal Time make massive desserts. We’ve watched them make massive St. Patrick’s Day treats. And we’ve watched them make massive, yet amusing, fools out of themselves. Today, we watch them make the most massive bacon burger ever created by man. And we love them for it.

Trying to shed some unwanted pounds? Skip the cereal and have eggs for breakfast instead — new research shows you may wind up eating less later on.

It’s pretty common knowledge that most brides will stress out about losing weight before the wedding in an effort to fit into that perfect dress. For this Susanne Eman, however, fitting into the perfect dress means not losing sight of her goal and keeping her weight at 800 pounds.

According to a massive survey of more than 353,000 adults of all ages by Gallup, almost half of Americans over the age of 18 suffers from chronic pain.

Fast food is considered dangerous to one’s health, if you ask health food experts. However, in this case, it was nearly fatal and Kentucky Fried Chicken has been ordered to pay up as a result.