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...colleague and friend Rachland Nashidik that read: "Please take care of the office and my wife and kids." On a stopover in Singapore, a fellow passenger, Tarmizi Hakim, recognized Munir and introduced himself. "There was no indication he was ill," recalls Hakim, who is a heart surgeon. "He didn't complain about anything...
That makes me fairly typical. According to Dr. Richard Carmona, the U.S. Surgeon General, only about a third of Americans have even tried to put together a family-health history. That's why he has launched the Family History Initiative and declared Thanksgiving National Family History Day. Sitting around the turkey talking about cancer and heart disease may seem like a grim thing to do when you're supposed to be giving thanks for everything that's going right. But since many families will be gathering for the holiday anyway, it's a perfect time to create a medical family...
...Surgeon General is making it easy: if you go to hhs.gov/familyhistory you can use the Frequently Asked Questions link to find out which diseases tend to run in families, which ones you should be most and least worried about, and what to do if, like me, your parents and grandparents have passed away. You can also download a free piece of software called My Family Health Portrait, which helps you organize the information. The program prints that out in an easy-to-read form you can give to your doctors...
After expressing interest in neurobiology, Williamson adds, “I also love athletes. I love being around athletes, and I could definitely see myself being some kind of sports medicine doctor like an orthopedic surgeon or that kind of thing...
...mother's case, calcium supplements and weight-bearing exercises brought her bone mass back to normal within a year--proof that, as the Surgeon General says, you can do something about your bone health...