02.21.2015 Health Health Column: Breathing yourself to stressless sleep You know when you’re lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking how badly you’d like to fall asleep? It usually happens after thinking of just about everything else,...
02.01.2015 Health Health Column: Irksome infection calls for precautions Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: you’ve heard of it. More commonly known as MRSA, it’s one of the better-known bacteria around, according to experts at Stony Brook University Medical Center. A...
01.18.2015 Health Health Column: Bone broth — fact or fad? Sipping bone broth: good or bad for you? One new trend popping up in some health circles is sipping broth made by boiling the bare bones of chicken and...
01.11.2015 Health Health Column: A better me for 2015 So, it’s that time again. The calendar flips to another year and you announce and start to make good on your New Year’s resolution. Often, that resolution is a...
12.28.2014 Health Health Column: Important info for Medicare beneficiaries Under provisions in the Affordable Care Act of 2010, some Medicare recipients are suddenly finding themselves without a safety net when in need of subsequent care at a skilled...
12.14.2014 Health Health Column: Experience ‘the helper’s high’ during the holidays You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get after finding someone the perfect gift, helping an older person cross the street or, say, rescuing a wide-eyed kitten from a...
12.07.2014 Health Health Column: Removing the sting from vaccinations Imagine your child going in for immunizations but being able to skip the painful sting of a needle and go straight to the Band-Aid and lollipop. It’s a biomedical...
11.23.2014 Health Health Column: When your child tries to avoid school Does your child refuse to go to school more than the average student? Has your teenager complained about not being able to concentrate during class? These are problems many...
11.14.2014 Health Health Column: A conference that’s for and about girls There’s a lot facing the young women of today: peer pressure, relationship troubles and unrealistic body expectations broadcast on television screens and social media sites. With so much to...
11.09.2014 Health Health Column: Answers to common questions about No. 2 Everybody gets to the point when they have to make “doo.” For some, it’s once, maybe twice a day; but for others, it could be just once or twice...
