Archive for June, 2009
HEALTH TIPS: HIV and cyberspace
Health Tip – Audio Version – “HIV and cyberspace ” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – HIV/AIDS Information (AIDS.gov) Cyberspace should look a bit different for World AIDS Day, December first. Bloggers, and people in virtual worlds like Second Life can use the day to spread the word on how to prevent the disease [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Vitamins, women, and cancer
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Vitamins, women, and cancer” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Vitamins and Minerals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) From protecting against birth defects to helping to keep the immune system strong, B vitamins including folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 can do women good. And there [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Not even one
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Not even one ” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (National Library of Medicine) About one woman in five drinks during pregnancy. And a study finds the drinking raises the risk that those babies will grow into teens who get into serious trouble. Elizabeth Disney [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Never events
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Never events” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Five Steps to Safer Health Care (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Can you imagine going into a hospital for surgery and learning afterward that the doctor operated on the wrong body part? Or that you got medication that was [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Smoking out COPD
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Smoking out COPD” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – COPD – can come free with your cigarettes. In COPD, your lungs can’t get as much air as they need, and the condition gets [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Money well spent
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Money well spent” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Physical Activity for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Researchers say programs that get people to be physically active amount to money well spent. Analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at community-based programs: mass [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Aging with power
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Aging with power” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Preventing Falls Among Older Adults (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Older women can get stronger. The question is how they can make the strength work for them. Researcher Dain LaRoche of the University of New Hampshire checked that [...]
HEALTH TIPS: No holiday treat
Health Tip – Audio Version – “No holiday treat” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – The “An Ounce of Prevention” Campaign (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Especially around now, between working and holiday shopping, there isn’t as much time for meal-preparing. Things get grabbed out of the fridge, popped into the microwave, nuked [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Vitamins E and C
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Vitamins E and C” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – What can I do to prevent or delay heart disease and stroke? (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Many adults take vitamins and have heard there are health benefits in antioxidants. But a study finds [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Flu vaccinations and youngsters
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Flu vaccinations and youngsters” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step – Vaccines and Immunizations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) When a youngster arrives at the hospital with a respiratory infection, it could be the flu – or it could be something else. Doctors naturally have to check. And [...]