Archive for April, 2009
HEALTH TIPS: Happy old
Health Tip – Audio Version – Happy old
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Good Mental Health is Ageless (PDF – KB) (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
When you’re young, being young looks more fun than being old. But older people may actually be happier.
Heather Lacey of the University of Michigan found that when she [...]
HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot 4
Health Tip – Audio Version – More help from the flu shot 4
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale says people with heart disease should protect themselves from the flu and heart disease by getting [...]
HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot 3
Health Tip – Audio Version – More help from the flu shot 3
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale says people with heart disease should get inactivated virus vaccine from a flu shot rather than [...]
HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot 2
Health Tip – Audio Version – More help from the flu shot 2
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale, who chaired a panel that wrote a scientific advisory from the American Heart Association and the [...]
HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot
Health Tip – Audio Version – More help from the flu shot
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Did you know the annual flu shot can also protect the heart? Experts say it reduces the chance that people with heart [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Sleep deprived
Health Tip – Audio Version – Sleep deprived
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Your Guide to Healthy Sleep (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Not getting enough sleep could mean more than being tired.
A study says middle-aged people getting five or less hours of sleep instead of seven to eight hours double their risk of [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Five things right
Health Tip – Audio Version – Five things right
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Heart Disease Prevention: What You Can Do (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could head off heart disease just by doing five things right?
Well, it is nice. Because researchers say middle-aged men who do these [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Cutting sex risk
Health Tip – Audio Version – Cutting sex risk
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Talk to Your Teen (4Parents – Office of Public Health and Science)
High school students are reducing their risks of getting sexually transmitted diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s finding was in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Over about [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Doing right, not smoking
Health Tip – Audio Version – Doing right, not smoking
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Smoking and Youth (National Library of Medicine)
It’s not always easy to be a good kid in a bad neighborhood. But there are good kids – the teens who are active in their schools, communities or churches. And a study [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Game On
Game On
Health Tip – Audio Version – Game On
Health Tip – Healthy Next Step:
(Sound of kids playing (under)
Kids need to have fun. So, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, more than 200 students were playing on the National Mall.
This being Washington, though, fun and games has a point to make. The first national [...]
