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Lung cancer might not get the same attention as breast or colon cancer, but it should.  It’s the leading cause of cancer-related deaths around the world.

In June of 2014, I was trimming trees at a local church, which just happened to be across the street from a hospital. While I was working, a power line arched over to the metal bucket I was standing in and shot 14,000 volts of electricity through my body. (For perspective, a Taser delivers about 1,200 volts to the body.)

Every 65 seconds, someone in the United States sustains a burn injury serious enough to require treatment. That’s 486,000 injuries a year, and those burns can occur in a variety of ways—exposure to chemicals, sun, fire, electricity or hot liquids.

Most of us know that smoking, high blood pressure and eating bags of French fries can be bad for our hearts. But there is another culprit: stress also can increase your chances of having a heart attack or other heart problems.

The world of sports is full of injuries with the potential to send you to the sidelines for days, weeks or even months. These strains, sprains and pulls can affect just about any part of your body.

One of the first athletic trainers was hired by Harvard University to care for its football team — back in the 1880s. Fast forward more than a century to 1991, when athletic training was recognized as an allied health care profession by the American Medical Association. Since then, the science behind athletic training has advanced substantially.