Concentrate- It's not just for orange juice anymore

Let’s focus.  I know, multi-tasking is appealing because the duties of life grow heavy.  But I have come to a place and time where l simply feel like I need to simply be.  While I’m being, I call that “focus.” Some people call it “prayer” or “meditation” or “watching basketball.”

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Inspiration

This news from the FDA caught my eye because I take the drug Advair every day, and I have for years. I see the warnings that were given today were targeted at children.

Serevent and Advair were the subject of a review Wednesday by the agency’s pediatric advisory committee, which looked at the safety of products containing salmeterol. While clinical studies have showed all three drugs are successful at controlling asthma in the vast majority of patients, some have showed that salmeterol can cause severe – and sometimes fatal – asthma attacks in a small group of patients.

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