With multiple demands on their time, women tend to give their health short shrift, health experts say. It is a classic situation of a caretaker forgetting to take care of herself.
“As nurturers, we give and give and give, and along the way we deplete ourselves,” says nurse Kathy Carley-Spanier, director of community health at Greenwich Hospital.
The hospital will host its first Women’s Health Fair on Friday. There will be several speakerscovering Read the rest of this entry »
If your child is coughing, see your family physician immediately. If diagnosed with pertussis, the child should stay home from school and not participate in extracurricular activities. Symptomatic individuals may return to school, child care group settings, or work after completing the first 5 days of an appropriate antibiotic regimen, but the full course of medication must be completed. Regardless of vaccination status or age, all household members Read the rest of this entry »
THE equation was simple. Put together women, jokes, beer, football and a hefty dose of irreverence, and you will hook men's eyeballs.
This was the magic formula for men's magazines, spearheaded by the category called 'lad's mags'.
Positioned between more staid fashion magazines and soft porn rags, the lad mag was unstoppable in the 1990s.
But now it seems the spell has been broken.
On 24 Oct, SPH Magazines announced that Read the rest of this entry »
Fabio Capello is determined that the England players should be in the best of health and at peak fitness as he attempts to guide them to the finals of the 2010 World Cup.
And that means impressing upon them the importance of a healthy diet. So traditional British favourites likes chips [known in some other parts of the world, strangely, as ‘fries‘] and tomato sauce [aka ketchup] have been taken off the menu for Capello‘s squad.
The Italian Read the rest of this entry »
This time of year is traditionally the time of year when many go on diets. The festive season takes its toll and with summer approaching, thoughts of swim suits and summer clothing focus the mind on our weight. One area of interest that many consider is diet pills, which seem to be in the news more often than not. With this in mind a leading website offers unbiased advice on diet pills, that website is www.pill.cc.
This innovative and impressive Read the rest of this entry »
A landmark study shows that people can lose weight on a variety of diets — including low-fat plans and low-carb ones — as long as they consume fewer calories.
Yes, it does seem like common sense, but weight loss has become a big business. Diet programs and best-selling books offer a banquet of different approaches, including cutting fats or cutting carbohydrates.
To get to the heart of the matter, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Read the rest of this entry »
matter of better managing the stress that can be brought on by multiple responsibilities, Poa says.
She likened the process to developing a road map for the future. By making women more aware of options in their care, she says she believes they will make better choices. She also encourages women to keep a journal of their medical history.
Poa speaks from personal experience as a mother of five. “I really have to practice what I preach,” she says. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s
not just women who grumble about their body and looks, for young men too have
body image issues, which range from physique and height to hair loss.
That’s the conclusion of a new
research.
The study of 200
young heterosexual men, which has been published in the
, found that it was so common
for men to worry about their muscle definition (82 per cent did) that such
concerns could be considered
normal.
“Clearly it is not a
small Read the rest of this entry »
Elena Delgado has waited long hours for basic care in a Houston emergency room. Diagnosed with diabetes this year and uninsured, she says it has taken her months to get an appointment with an eye specialist.
But the 40-year-old janitor, one of thousands who clean office buildings in downtown Houston, will have health insurance and a designated place to get medical treatment next year under a union contract with five major janitorial companies. Read the rest of this entry »
Silicon Valley’s business parks are filled with musicians who get their after-hours kicks playing rock and jazz — music that seems to fit the valley’s innovative, rebel image.
St. Michael’s Trio breaks that mold; you’re more likely to hear Debussy than The Doors from them. That might be surprising coming from a CEO, a medical devices guy and a software geek. But they’re all classically trained, and they love what they’re doing so much they Read the rest of this entry »