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Even Short Runs Have Major Health Benefits
Jogging a mile or two a few times a week can help you live longer and reduce your risk of disease. Running is one of the most popular forms of exercise in America. It may also be one of the healthiest. Numerous long-term studies — some involving thousands of participants — have shown that running…
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In sickness and health, Tampa woman cultivated wonder
Caryle Cammisa’s life had big adventures. She rode a camel in Jordan, went on safari in Kenya and toured a medieval castle in Transylvania. She worked in foreign service and raised her daughter, Natalie, around the world by herself. After retiring to Tampa, she volunteered with multiple organizations, including the Sierra Club and the League…
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TikTok’s Doctor Mike says you can over-optimize your health in the name of longevity. Here’s his best advice for living longer
Since he began practicing medicine, Dr. Mikhail Varshavski has wanted people to feel invested in their health and empowered to ask questions from the seemingly mundane to the controversial. “People are on their phones, so I had to go there,” he tells Fortune in a sit-down interview at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas this…
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Community Health Fair presented at the Karen Preservati Center
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } PRINCETON — Door prizes, a chance to detect and beat colon cancer, information about diabetes and assessing one’s risk of a heart attack were all part of a new health fair that came Friday to Mercer County. The new…
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WHO health supplies move towards Gaza
21 October 2023, Cairo, Egypt — Four trucks carrying WHO health supplies have started to move towards the Rafah border crossing, on their way to Gaza. The supplies include trauma medicines and supplies for 1200 people and 235 portable trauma bags for on-the-spot stabilization of injured patients. They also include medicines for the treatment of…
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Opinion: The San Diego American Indian Health Center balances Western medicine, Native spirituality
Nearly 15 percent of all Native Americans in San Diego County suffer from diabetes, and many face other health issues. In a county with the most reservations of any in the nation, helping them by mixing Western medicine with traditional healing methods is essential. Below, a patient at the San Diego American Indian Health Center,…
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Opinion: The San Diego American Indian Health Center lacks necessary resources. Here’s how to help.
LaChapelle, Ed.D., is CEO at the San Diego American Indian Health Center and lives in San Diego. Last year, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration funded over 14,000 health centers, serving over 30.5 million patients — more than 24 million of whom were uninsured. Nearly 1.4 million of them are people experiencing homelessness, more…
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Hawai‘i Department of Health reinforces commitment to transgender rights
According to local health reports, transgender and gender-diverse communities in Hawaiʻi experience several health disparities, compared to cisgender people. (Pexels) In response to increasing attacks on transgender communities in the United States, the Hawai‘i Department of Health recently released its “Statement on Transgender Rights and Public Health.” In alignment with the departmentʻs mission, the statement denounces discrimination, including transphobia and transphobic action, which…
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Afghan Quake Survivors Face Staggering Health Consequences
GENEVA — The World Health Organization warns that tens of thousands of survivors of a series of powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquakes that struck western Afghanistan’s Herat province between October 7 and 15 are in desperate need of humanitarian aid and essential health services. “I have personally seen how these multiple earthquakes flattened villages, displaced thousands…
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‘Still an incredibly difficult time’: Local restaurants fight proposed increases for health inspections
The fees, depending on restaurant size, would have increased by $45 to $70 per year PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Portland’s restaurants have been fighting back against recently proposed fee increases as they recover from the pandemic – and they’re winning. The Oregon Health Authority had previously given authorization to counties to increase inspection fees, and…
