Health is Everywhere
BY MATT MASIELLO, MD, MPH Often times the feeling is the opposite; it is illness that is everywhere, not health. With the U.S. population experiencing a continuing surge of chronic illness, costing this country, we […]
BY MATT MASIELLO, MD, MPH Often times the feeling is the opposite; it is illness that is everywhere, not health. With the U.S. population experiencing a continuing surge of chronic illness, costing this country, we […]
Poverty is increasing in America, with 17% of our citizens living in poverty, including 16 million of our children-our future. In several of our southern states, nearly 25% of the population lives in poverty. These […]
JOHNSTOWN — New state and federal regulations and guidelines addressing wellness issues have swept through school systems, rewriting health, physical education, consumer sciences and school lunch programs. Although some say the changes are making a […]
Dr. Bernard Leech of Conemaugh Family Medicine Center has been known to ask patients if he can prescribe medicine that costs $7 a day and causes shortness of breath, raises blood pressure and heart rate, […]
Prevention of heart disease begins young, experts say, encouraging parents to instill proven nutrition and exercise lifestyles from infancy. But with childhood obesity rates tripling in the past 30 years, many worry that Americans are […]