Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 30, 2009
Here’s an article with some good tips about keeping your food safe this summer. While you’ll get some of the basics about keeping foods at their appropriate temperature, there’s also some good tips about properly handling raw meat and a couple precautions I didn’t even know, which completely surprised me, given my germaphobe status. It’s a [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 29, 2009
Of the few things that I’m passionate about, prevention is one topic that I think everyone should support, especially in education efforts. But I feel like prevention always seems to get the short shrift in funding and priorities. So this week, I’d like to dedicate the posts to prevention. It’s not an official prevention week, [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 25, 2009
So I ran across two really interesting items. One was an older health article about the issue of cancer in Navajo tribes and the importance of accurate translation—a pretty good read, in my humble opinion, although I feel like I needed a follow up story. The other interesting thing was this report developed from a Kaiser opinion [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 24, 2009
I don’t really have a list like Oprah, but I’m loving these quick and dirty fact sheets from ACES about physical activity. Some people hate exercise and while I’m not always as enthusiastic as Richard Simmons–love him in that Yoplait commercial–I hear it’s better than triple bypass any day. So taking that approach, I feel [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 23, 2009
There’s a little funding available for organizations, states or tribes doing preconception work in Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri), but the deadline is July 13. You can contact Lieutenant Commander Tracy Branch, tracy.branch@hhs.gov.
And for those of you in the D.C. Metro area, Howard University is offering mammograms and pap smears at no costs to patients. Of [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 22, 2009
HHS is gathering comments on how you would like your health information to be used, especially after things become electronic. Under the blue “Quick Links” box on the right, you’ll find that the third link takes you to the page for the e-mail address and mailing address to express your thoughts. The deadline to comment is [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 19, 2009
In honor of Home Safety Month, SeniorNavigator has a few tips to help senior citizens to be able to stay in their homes as long as they desire. Most of the tips seem to be about preventing the accidents that can lead to a person having to head to the assisted living home. Enjoy and pass [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 18, 2009
Yes, yes. There is yet another use for the Wii. Now it seems to me that everyone is getting slightly addicted to the Wii—or maybe that’s just the people I know—and of course they have those commercials about how the Wii can help you obtain great health, but a researcher at the University of Cincinnati [...]
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 17, 2009
A researcher at the University of Cincinnati is doing some investigating to see if the Omega-3 Fatty acid, docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, found in fish will help increase pregnant women’s sensitivity to insulin and lower their blood sugar levels. If so, this could prove useful for pregnant women who were already overweight when they became pregnant and [...]
Don’t forget!
Posted by: healthyadvances on: June 26, 2009
Today is the final day to submit your comments for how you envision health care providers and the “powers that be” to meaningfully use your –or your children’s, your parents, friends and loved ones’– health information.