{KXLG – Watertown, SD} The Boys & Girls Club of Watertown has announced in a notice sent to parents changes to its membership fee structure for 2025, effective from the next enrollment period. The increase would be the first increase in eight years for the club. According to the notice, the fee increase is necessitated…
Exercise has been shown to improve brain health and reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia over the long-term. But engaging in everyday physical activity has immediate benefits for brain health, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Medicine. The team found that middle-aged people who participated in…
MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) – Midland Health and Healthy City have teamed up to bring a new in-person symposium to Midland. This one aims to keep you healthy through Lifestyle Medicine. Lifestyle Medicine aims to prevent diseases and improve quality of life for all ages. The Whole Health Wellness Symposium aims to provide insight into the…
Colorado and The District of Columbia have lower obesity rates than any other U.S. state or territory, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Specifically, more than one in five adults in Colorado (24.9%) and DC (23.5%) are reported to be obese. The CDC reported that more than one in three adults (35%)…
Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MSc, chief of the Division of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate neurologist in the Department of Neurology and Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author and Jonathan Rosand, MD, MSc, co-founder of the McCance Center for Brain Health and neurologist…
Gastroenterology specialists may possess suboptimal skills and confidence in diagnosing primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in a timely fashion and separately from other hepatic conditions, according to data from a new qualitative study. New research presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2024 Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, PA, this week showed both gastroenterologists and relevant…
Friends for Medicine, Israel’s largest organization for medication accessibility, has recently achieved an important milestone in community service by improving the processes of medication donation and collection through a new dedicated app, dubbed the “Get Taxi of the Medication World.” Developed for Friends for Medicine by volunteers from Code for Israel, the app’s primary…
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A healthy diet can help keep prostate cancer in check, a new study finds. The better a man eats, the less likely his low-grade prostate cancer will progress to a more dangerous state, researchers reported Oct. 17 in the journal JAMA Oncology. For every increase of 12.5 points…
It was almost Thanksgiving. My mom, dad, brother, sister, and I were all in the kitchen cooking for the holiday. Suddenly, my mom dropped a spoon, and her whole body went stiff like a board. We managed to catch her as she fell to the floor. We called an ambulance, and she was rushed to…
Christine Bryant Times correspondent Frank Serna talks about how the weight loss drug Zepbound helped him lose 60 pounds and how it gave him time to develop better eating and exercise habits. Tony V. Martin, The Times In his late 20s, Frank Serna knew what he did next could reshape the course…