How could we resist the sweet and savory flavors of air created by a vape? My name is Nate. I’m a sophomore at Poly Prep High School in Brooklyn, NY, and have been interning at Cancer Sherpa for the past two months.
While there has been a flood of women’s healthcare companies popping up in the last few years, Deborah and Jake saw a need for making the fertility and family-building process not only less opaque but, in Deb’s words, alleviate the “total hell” of finding the right fertility doctor.
World Sleep Day might sound like an excuse to hit the snooze button a few more times (which, let’s be honest, wouldn’t be a bad thing), but it’s actually a day dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of good sleep hygiene for our health and well-being.
Celebrated every year on the last day of February, we honor the 350 million people worldwide who live with a rare disease.
Thursday, February 29th is Rare Disease Day, and as the mother of a child with a rare disease, childhood vaccination is a vital topic.
Have you been hearing about “third places” lately? Coined by the renowned US sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book “The Great Good Place,” the third place concept is gaining traction as a crucial component of social well-being.
When most people think about donating blood, they think about donating whole red blood cells for packed red blood cell transfusions given to trauma, surgical, and oncology patients. However, there are different types of donations that create different types of blood products that patients receive.
It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week, and the CDC wants to remind all of two things: it is not too late to protect yourself against the flu by getting vaccinated, and by getting the vaccine you will tame your flu illness and its symptoms from wild to mild.
The key to making the most of a Social Worker’s services is to be open and honest with what’s challenging for you and to directly ask what they can help you to accomplish.
Part of what makes this time of year so special, whether through personal or communal nostalgia, is the feeling that we can always fall back on our community. As adults, we often forget that, which isolates us when we do not need to do that to ourselves.
The third and final installment of our healthy aging series focuses on cognition (brain function), which is the third pillar of the National Institute of Aging’s healthy aging guidelines. Read on to learn how incorporating small, positive physical and mental health changes can impact and support healthy cognition as we age.
In part two of our healthy aging series, we’ll delve into the critical importance of caring for our mental health, including ways to identify and improve the behaviors and habits that impact our wellness most.
By 2060, almost a quarter of the U.S. population will be age 65 or older. Americans are living and will continue to live longer, but what those years look like is up to you.
Every state across the country has already been plagued by extreme heat this summer, and the current heat wave in the Southwest is breaking heat and duration records. Sweaty messes aside, many Americans’ health may be at risk, as an average of 702 heat-related deaths occur every year in the U.S. (CDC).
Walking is our favorite low-impact activity for a few different reasons.
Students of all grade levels can engage their critical thinking skills in many textbook-free ways. Below are some of our team’s go-to ideas for keeping kids sharp all summer.
Today is World Blood Donor Day, and our team is proud to spread awareness about the immense effects donors have on lives all over the globe (starting right here in our office).
Survivorship, regardless of the stage of treatment or remission a patient is in, should be celebrated.
If there is one thing I know about this nurse and all nurses, it is that nursing is not a profession. It is a calling. Please understand me; I do not use the word calling in a cute or trite way; I use it because caring for another human being from birth through death requires individuals who are both the
Cancer Sherpa has repeatedly recommended many self-pay options to help our readers access mental healthcare, and we have also encouraged them to find out what mental healthcare services they are already paying for through insurance. To explain why it is critical to find out what mental health diagnostic and treatment options many Americans already have, Cancer Sherpa spoke to the
