Category: Human & Environmental Welfare Columnist

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Frequent – even daily – taking a sauna can reduce the risk of cardiac death, according to a recent study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Each year, as millions of people in poor and developing countries succumb to treatable illnesses and injuries for lack of proper medical equipment, U.S. hospitals are throwing away some 2,000 tons of unused surgical supplies worth over $200 million. Not only are these lifesaving supplies wasted, but most of them end up in our oceans and landfills, compromising the health of the very planet that gives us life.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Here today, gone tomorrow. Unfortunately, when it comes to cancer, the old saying is all too often true. But now a growing number of American men are seeking to change that, at least in regard to one common cancer. The motto of this sometimes scruffy-looking but well-intended group might better be characterized as, “Hair today, here tomorrow.”