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By Duff Holcomb, RN, Maternity Educator, Saint Joseph London Pregnancy is an exciting time for women, but it can also be a time filled with anxiety as they undergo testing to ensure their baby is healthy. Birth defects affect one in every 33 babies born in the United States each year, according to the Centers […]
By Isadora Baum, PopSugar.com When it comes to setting up goals for a new year, weight loss is often the most common resolution, but in 2019, why not stop being so narrowly focused on the pounds on the scale and instead concentrate on being happy and well? Losing weight and fat certainly has its benefits, […]
By Nick Bennett, Forbes.com Movember is a spectacular example of cultural intervention in men’s health. A portmanteau of the Australian-English diminutive for ‘mustache’ and ‘November’, Movember invites us to focus on the male symbol of the ‘mo’ and men’s health issues, for a full month each year. Across the Atlantic and Pacific, men’s upper lips […]
By Jennifer Manfrin, BestReviews Breast cancer touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States each year, and it’s a leading cancer diagnosis throughout the world. October is set aside each year to shed light on the disease and emphasize awareness, prevention strategies, early detection, treatment, and education. The month is […]
By Rey Sanchez, CNN (CNN) – A nervous Jacklyn Valentine twice checked on her single-story home Wednesday in the final South Carolina community in the path of Hurricane Florence’s lingering floodwaters. “We’re just kind of waiting,” Valentine told HLN after evacuating her Georgetown County home. “We really don’t know where to go or what to […]
Before the middle of the last century, diseases like whooping cough, polio, measles, haemophilus influenzae and rubella struck hundreds of thousands of infants, children and adults in the U.S. Thousands died every year from them. As vaccines were developed and became widely used, rates of these diseases declined until today most of them are nearly […]
Do you have a loved one that is lonely or who may be suffering from “situational depression”? Sometimes just having someone to talk to, or spend time with, or maybe to read to you can be the best medicine in the world. How about a meal and some conversation two or three nights a week? […]
By Mike Strekall, Independent Record The month of June has been designated nationally as Men’s Health Month. The purpose of Men’s Health Month is to increase awareness of preventable health problems among men of all ages. But men’s health shouldn’t be something we only talk about in June. It’s important to continually spread awareness about […]
Alexandria C. Brimage-Gray Strategic Communications/Outreach Specialist Army Reserve Family Programs FORT BRAGG, North Carolina — Admitting to, or seeking help for a mental health problem can seem daunting for Army Reserve Soldiers and their family members, but it does not have to be. With the month of May being recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month, […]