Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:46 AM CST
Lonoke Community Center kicked off Jan. 30 a fitness program designed specifically for senior citizens called Silver Sneakers.
Margie Croxton, Silver Sneakers Instructor, said the class goals are to increase physical and mental health, work on balance, flexibility, and muscle strength and learn how to take of your body.
Croxton told the class the benefits of exercise are: to increase and maintain bone Read the rest of this entry »

South Carolina has the ninth-highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the nation, but 25 percent of those infected don’t realize they carry the virus, Beaufort health care providers say.
Getting that 25 percent into a clinic for diagnosis and treatment is the goal of eight Lowcountry medical school students who are launching a local HIV/AIDS awareness program as part of Monday’s World AIDS Awareness Day.
Their long-term objective, according to student Derek Read the rest of this entry »

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A health insurance program meant to help middle-income families who have youngsters with serious illnesses needs to be reworked to reach more people, officials said.
Gov. Ted Strickland signed an executive order in April creating the Children’s Buy-In Program. Since then, four children have qualified and two have been enrolled.
Ohio set aside $12.5 million for 2008 and 2009, anticipating coverage for as many as 5,000 children Read the rest of this entry »

Commentary by Lt. Col. David Hook
CAPE CANVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla.
–By now you have probably already heard about the findings of a recent worldwide audit on the effectiveness of the Air Force’s fitness program. You know the report… the one that finds Airmen are not routinely getting their minimum prescribed weekly exercise, and that the “fit to fight” program encourages a “fit to test” mentality. This mindset ultimately threatens our readiness. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, with headquarters in the St. Paul
suburb of Eagan, was chartered in 1933 as Minnesota’s first health plan and
continues to carry out its charter mission today: to promote a wider, more
economical and timely availability of health services for the people of
Minnesota. A nonprofit, taxable organization, Blue Cross is the largest health
plan based in Minnesota, covering 2.9 million members in Minnesota and
nationally Read the rest of this entry »

The Orange Planet Athletic Club in Pleasant Hill is now certified to offer the Silver Sneakers fitness program for seniors.
The program offers physical activity, health education and social events for Medicare-eligible and Group retiree members, usually age 65 or older, but in some cases, those of any age deemed disabled and receiving Medicare.
“The biggest feed back that we receive from seniors so far is that they enjoy our user friendly equipment Read the rest of this entry »

Mercy Hospital has been a wonderful sponsor of the “Lifetime Fitness” Body Recall program in St. Clair County. For the past 23 years, Mercy continued to support the older adults and those who want to begin an exercise program of lifetime fitness.
We wish to thank Mercy for the $14,000 in funding and support the hospital provided to this very beneficial program of health and fitness this past year. Our local program provides classes three days each Read the rest of this entry »

RED BANK — The Parker Family Health Center has received a $2,500 grant from the Investors Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, which provides charitable funding to not-for-profit programs in the communities the bank serves.
The Parker Family Health Center, located on Shrewsbury Avenue, and its staff of volunteer doctors and medical professionals provide free health-care services to low-income community residents who do not have any type of Read the rest of this entry »

BOISE, Idaho – A regional program to train medical students in Seattle is yielding more Idaho doctors, but fewer of them are practicing family medicine and helping alleviate a statewide shortage of primary care physicians.
The number of Idaho medical students who graduated from the program and returned home to work in primary care has fallen 12 percent since 2005, according to a state Board of Education report this month.
The WWAMI Medical Education Read the rest of this entry »

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Attendees at the
’s GRAS Notification Program from the program director, Paulette Gaynor, Ph.D. Gaynor explained how the program works, and how it differs from the approval of food additives.
In all cases, whether food additives or GRAS (generally recognized as safe) ingredients, the only issue is that of safety, according to Gaynor. Evaluations of an ingredient’s GRAS status are safety-based only with no balancing Read the rest of this entry »