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 […]
Healthy Living
Food Stamps, Poverty, and the Terribly Ignorant and Uncaring U.S. Politician
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 […]
Local schools adopt fitness, nutrition programs
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 […]
Heart health: Smoking a prime heart disease culprit
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, […]
Local programs offer incentive for healthy living
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 […]
Matt Masiello, M.D., MPH 