People should start getting screened for colon cancer at age 45 instead of at 50, the American Cancer Society said Wednesday.

There Is No Substitute for Active Supervision, Start Slow With Babies, Educate Your Kids About Swimming Safely, Don’t Rely on Swimming Aids, Take the Time to Learn CPR, Take Extra Steps Around Pools and Check the Drains in Your Pool and Spa.

Spaying or neutering is one of the first decisions you can make to give your pet the best chance of a happy, healthy life.

A hernia is a painful sac containing a part of displaced organ (usually the bowel) ora fatty tissue. Hernia surgery is one of the most common treatments carried out in the USA with around 1 million surgeries each year.

By John Rossheim

In this age of metrics, it’s tempting for job hunters to seek solace in the sheer numbers of their effort: 200 job postings answered, 300 resumes mailed, 400 business cards collected for the purposes of professional networking. But if you think about how these brute-force employment campaigns affect the professional on the other side of the desk—the HR recruiter, the networking contact in a powerful position—it quickly becomes apparent that the rack-up-the-numbers networker is on the wrong track. That’s because these days employers are looking to select a very few outstanding professionals from a tidal wave of good people who just want a job.