Category: DARREN’S BLOG

Teenager raises $15,000 to send Holocaust survivor to Israel (Original article.) 17-year-old Drew Principe decides to start a fundraiser for his 89-year-old friend, Henry Oster, so he can have his bar mitzvah and meet his last living relative; the two met at a school assembly where Oster spoke of his experiences during WWII. A Southern California teen raised about $15,000 […]

167 drivers pay it forward at southern Indiana McDonald’s drive-thru (Watch the video of this story by clicking here!) SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (WDRB) — In a busy world, a drive-thru often serves as one big dinner table for a lot people who’ve never met. But at the Scottsburg McDonald’s on Sunday night, strangers became family. It started with a restaurant regular. “She […]

  A terminally ill five-year-old girl has ticked her “dream wedding” off of her bucket list after a touching ceremony with her best friend. Eileidh Paterson, who has the debilitating childhood cancer neuroblastoma, made the list after being told her condition was terminal. The five-year-old had ranked marrying her best friend Harrison Grier, age six, as the most important thing […]

Ladies, lace up your running shoes and hit the pavement or the treadmill. But you don’t have to run. Walk — but at a forceful pace as fast as you can go. Do that when you’re young, and it could reap huge benefits as you age, keeping your brain strong. That’s right: Strong legs equal a strong brain, according to […]

More than 85 percent of American will experience low back pain. Backache is the second most common cause for sick days in the workplace. Headache is the number one reason for sick days. Most cases of back pain stem from poorly trained core muscles that put pressure on nerve roots leaving the spine. A literature review and meta-analysis led by […]

When the going gets tough, Mom’s brain gets going. That’s what scientists are saying after figuring out how motherhood super charges female smarts to equip gals for the rigors of raising a child. “Pregnant women undergo a phase of so called baby brain, when they have an apparent loss of function,” explains Dr. Craig Kinsley, professor of neuroscience at the […]

Beware your contact lenses. Wearing them appears to change the natural bacterial environment of the eyes, reports HealthDay News of research from the New York University School of Medicine. Led by Maria Dominguez-Bello, the team collected samples at the beginning of the study from 58 adults to analyze bacteria on the eye surface and the skin below the eye. Twenty […]