“My wife and I have got four little kids, and we’re so excited about this athletic facility…. It’s spectacular,” said Boldt, a salesman who lives about a mile and a half from BCC in Supply. “With obesity being such a big problem in the U.S., we’ve got to keep active.”
Boldt is one of 279 people who have already joined the BCC gym, according to Liz McLean, the college’s director of marketing. The 55,000-square-foot building has the county’s Read the rest of this entry »

Europe’s largest chipmaker announced the redundancies as part of a cost-cutting drive, but it is not yet clear from which facilities the cuts will be made.
The Linux Foundation wants people to express their passion for Linux through video. It is running a “We’re Linux” video contest. Grand prize includes a trip to Tokyo.
Hi, I’m a Mac
a PC. CNET News’ Ina Fried tries out Microsoft’s latest OS on an older Intel Mac.
Big Moving Pictures had Read the rest of this entry »

TUESDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) — Following their release from Texas prisons, only 5 percent of ex-inmates with HIV fill a prescription for medicine to treat their condition within the necessary 10 days, a new study finds.
“Those who discontinue ART [antiretroviral therapy] at this time are at increased risk of developing a higher viral burden, resulting in greater infectiousness and higher levels of drug resistance, potentially creating reservoirs Read the rest of this entry »

FAIRFIELD, Conn., Nov 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Families looking for an easy,
fun and inexpensive way to stay fit have a new, award-winning gift option this
holiday season. Kideosyncrasy Vol.2 (
) is a fun tool for
teaching kids to dance and get fit. This DVD is jam-packed with live-action;
kids-teaching-kids how to easily step into fun dance moves to popular hits.
With kids sharing important tips on nutrition and exercise, Kideosyncrasy
promotes Read the rest of this entry »

,
Nov. 24
) Health
Education Answers, an interactive online program, has received Health
Information Product Certification from the National Committee for Quality
Assurance (NCQA) for the Health Risk Appraisals and Interactive Consumer
Health Tools certification options. NCQA is a private, non-profit organization
dedicated to providing health care quality information through the Web and the
media in order to help consumers, employers, and others Read the rest of this entry »

Carrots are great to have around for healthy snacks, especially for children, and many of us buy them to make carrot juice. But how often do you plan dinner, or part of dinner, around this ingredient?
It’s a question worth pondering now, in the depths of winter, when our choice of fresh vegetables, especially colorful ones, is limited. Among the nutrients that make carrots such a healthy option are so-called
, which are converted to vitamin Read the rest of this entry »

When you turned your clocks back last weekend for the end of daylight saving time, you may have been protecting your heart, according to new research out of Sweden.
in Stockholm and Rickard Ljung of the National Board of Health and Welfare took advantage of their country’s detailed health records to examine what happened as the clocks were changed twice a year between 1987 and 2006.
, the pair report that the number of heart attacks that occurred Read the rest of this entry »

KIWANIS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN NORTHEAST will meet at noon Wednesday at Denny’s Restaurant,
Road, Hanover Township,
. The luncheon meeting is open to the public. For information, call Fred at 610-868-1357.
and the YWCA of Bethlehem will hold Season of Love, Protect Your Heart, a free heart health workshop for women, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the university’s Maginnes Hall. For information, call 610-867-4669.
Relin at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For information, Read the rest of this entry »

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Doctors at the San Mateo Medical Center left a five-inch catheter inside a Foster City man’s heart, causing an infection that complicated his fight against cancer, then tried to cover up the mistake, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Alan Paolucci, 52, says the San Mateo County-run hospital should have known that a catheter being used to treat his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma had broken off from a port in his chest after he began treatment in 2003.
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