Wheeling Hospital is seeing red as its staff members participate in National Wear Red Day, an event coordinated by the American Heart Association to promote women’s heart health and awareness.
In addition to red clothing, staff members will wear red dress pins from the AHA’s Go Red For Women – Care for Your Heart campaign. The campaign focuses on women learning the signs and symptoms of heart disease, including their own risk factors.
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left a Broadway production in late December due to a diagnosis of mercury poisoning. We could only speculate that a diet heavy on fish was the root cause — and now the actor himself has confirmed as such.
“And the truth is, Piven could not have gotten out of the play without a real diagnosis for insurance purposes. He says that years of being a fish eating vegetarian was enough to do the trick and act as a catalyst.”
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An Ashford woman was killed in a one-car accident between Graham and Eatonville on Friday night, the Washington State Patrol reported Saturday.
Corey Morford, 23, was speeding on southbound Highway 161 near Kapowsin Highway when her 1993 Honda Civic hit a light pole. The car then rolled, hit a tree and came to rest upside-down.
Morford died at the scene. She was wearing her seat belt, but drugs or alcohol were involved, the report said.
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Release date: October 8, 2008
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Oct. 8 / / – Plexus Systems, Inc., provider of Plexus Online software for the medical manufacturing enterprise, today announced a set of enhancements for medical device manufacturers. The new enhancements include an integrated program that will provide enterprise-wide compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Quality System (QS) regulations mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Read the rest of this entry »
As race organizers readied the finish line at last week’s Tour of Missouri, spectators who arrived early browsed the booths at the Health and Wellness Expo.
Sponsored by CoxHealth, the expo featured free health information and screenings for blood pressure, body fat percentage and body mass index.
“It brings health awareness to people and it exposes what we have to offer them,” CoxHealth employee Joe Bertagna said, noting the Tour of Missouri Read the rest of this entry »
Is the Zone diet fit for exercisers?
Dr. Barry Sears’ popular
program has appealed to many dieters because of it’s moderate balance of fats, proteins and carbohydrates. With a ratio of 40% carbohydrates, 30% fat and 30% protein, many find the diet easier to follow than the more restrictive Atkins style eating plan and find it to be more successful in the short run than traditional high carbohydrate diets. In
, Sears’ 1997 follow up to
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Studies emphasize the important role played by physical activity in public health efforts to combat obesity and diseases. Frequent and regular physical activity boosts the immune system, helps prevent diseases, improves mental health and helps prevent depression. It may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity has become a major reason of concern, as most of the obese children are more likely to develop obesity-related diseases. Read the rest of this entry »
- El Camino Hospital Judy Twitchell, 650-988-7767 650-280-6001 (cell)
Hatti Hamlin, 925-872-4328
With its free-standing, three-story maternal child health pavilion as its centerpiece, El Camino Hospital has announced that it is establishing the first Women’s Hospital in Northern California. The Women’s Hospital encompasses not only El Camino Hospital’s prenatal, maternity and neonatal services, but
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Chicago Health Commissioner Dr. Terry Mason has done all Chicagoans a great service in encouraging them to join him in going vegetarian in January (“City health chief’s food fight targets meat,” News, Jan. 9). I hope everyone takes his words to heart.
Switching to a plant-based diet is the best thing anyone can do for their health, for the environment and for animals.
U.S. Coast Guard officials have ended their search this morning for a missing fisherman whose boat sank off the coast of Ano Nuevo Point in San Mateo County on Saturday afternoon, Lt. j.g. Simone Mausz said.
A Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched at sunrise today to the area where two men were found in a life raft near where the vessel sank around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. The search ended at about 8:45 a.m. today when Coast Guard officials weren’t Read the rest of this entry »