THE HEALTH PRESS DAILY

PETERSBURG - Due to the pandemic, the Petersburg Half Marathon & 5K did not take place last Saturday. With great caution, the current city tour through the most historic areas of Petersburg had to be postponed.The scenic course offers views of Old Petersburg, the rural areas of Petersburg, Blandford Cemetery, Subway Houses, Trapezium Home, and Pocahontas Island.Participants looking...

Enteral feeding is the administration of drugs or food through the gastrointestinal tract using feeding tubes. It is prescribed to patients who, due to difficulty swallowing or surgery, are unable to ingest food or ingest sufficient nutrients orally, but have a functional gastrointestinal tract. Enteral nutrients are generally administered directly to a patient's stomach, duodenum, or jejunum...

Breadcrumb Trail Links Local news The pandemic had a significant impact on laboratories, both by limiting the number of people labs can host and by redirecting laboratory staff to pandemic-related issues, Cooper said Author of the article: Kate F. Mackenzie Some concerns...

Good housekeepingThe 5 best products from Good Housekeeping's Spring Essentials ExpoThe start of a new season means the debut of new products, and the editors at Good Housekeeping love getting their hands on them so they can experience the fun for themselves. At our recent GH Spring Essentials Expo, five great brands shared their latest exercise equipment, healthy...

Two Whitsundays nurses will go to great lengths to find a cure for type 1 diabetes and will go on a week-long outback hike to raise research funds.Proserpine Hospital nurses Troy Wake and Siobhan Barlow asked to ride the Northern Territory's Larapinta Trail as part of a fundraiser run by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in August.From August...

Hair loss and hair loss are considered normal and often occur with age. While no treatment is 100 percent effective, Thyme Essential has shown promise.Essential oils have shown promise in promoting hair loss caused by alopecia areata, for example.Alopecia areata is a type of hair loss characterized by one or more round bald patches that appear suddenly, mostly...

If you got the news that you had prediabetes, no doubt you panicked - at least for a minute or two. According to the latest federal data from 2016, one-third of adults in the United States have prediabetes. In prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal but lower than the threshold for a...

Our planet supplies all of its living beings with an abundance of vegetable sources of food. But that doesn't mean getting into all of your greens is always easy. In honor of Earth Day, Matt Abdoo shares some of his favorite vegetable recipes: broccoli and apple coleslaw with spicy ranch dressing, fried vegetable and cauliflower rice, carrot...

Fitbit has unveiled its new Fitbit Luxe - a stylish fitness tracker for women (predominantly) that brings an AMOLED screen to tape format for the first time. Fitbit's newer band-style wearables have focused on delivering value (Fitbit Inspire 2) or offering more technology (Fitbit Charge 4) - but the Luxe was certainly designed to deliver a better looking, more wearable...

Contact:Jon BergSanford Health Media Relations605-312-4421 / jon.berg@sanfordhealth.orgSIOUX FALLS, SD, April 19, 2021 - Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the country, launched the PLEDGE study to identify and predict which children are at risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D) and celiac disease.The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust awarded Sanford Research a grant of...