If your family doesn’t eat enough vegetables, there are ways to sneak them into almost any meal. The American Heart Association suggests: Shred veggies such as beet...
You know it’s important to eat lots of fruit and vegetables, but how can you jazz them up to make them more delicious? It’s all in how you cook them. Roast ve...
If you want to add years to your life and your family’s, ten daily servings of fruits and vegetables may be the best recipe you can follow, a new analysis suggests. The b...
Hantavirus can cause a rare, but deadly, disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). A local woman in her 50’s is currently hospitalized with symptoms consistent...
Whether your pet has a furry tail, a feathered tail or no tail at all, animal therapy can be a big mood-booster for patients with mental or chronic health conditions. Sim...
Emboli are most often blood clots or pieces of plaque that have broken off from large arteries that lead to the brain. Emboli float in the blood stream until a vessel is...
Salads with a base of spring lettuce will spruce up any meal. Use any tender greens—watercress, baby arugula, dandelion, spinach, kale, butterhead (also known as Bibb or...
Every year, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association sponsors the country’s largest and most important stroke conference, the International Stroke Confe...
Here’s some good news for those people who cannot tolerate statins or those who need more than statins to reduce cholesterol enough to be safe. New types of cholesterol l...
by Neuropsychologists Erica Brandling-Bennett, PhD, and Lama Alameddine, PsyD Many stroke survivors find they have problems thinking as well as they did before their stro...
