Total Healthcare Center at 928 N. Glenwood Blvd. is hosting its Annual Community Health fair from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 P.M., Saturday, August 27, 2011 in the Center’s parking lot. To kick off the event, there will be a community walk starting at 8:00 a.m. THC invites all organizations and health-care related vendors to join …
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Aug 23
Battle of the bulge as big as Texas
By Todd Staples, Texas Agriculture Commissioner The latest “F as in Fat” report is out and the grades are not good. The research, sponsored by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, finds Texas has the unhealthy distinction of being among 12 states nationwide with adult obesity rates over 30 percent. …
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Jun 29
Good Shepherd earns new acclaim
Good Shepherd Medical Center (GSMC) is at the top of the American Heart Association’s list of fit-friendly companies. Hospital President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Banos explained what motivated his facility to work hard enough to earn this recognition. “With the nation’s rise in obesity and the escalating cost of health care, one of Good …
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Jun 21
McDiabetes: Top docs tell McDonald’s to stop marketing junk
By Patti Lynn McDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids. It certainly has good reason to do so. One in three children is at risk for developing type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives as a result of diets high …
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Apr 07
Uninsured Texans have a new option
If you’ve been unable to get private health insurance because of an illness or disability, you may now have an answer to your dilemma. The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, created as part of last year’s Affordable Care Act, is making health care coverage available to people who couldn’t buy or afford it because they have …
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Feb 09
Obesity costs as big as Texas
Obesity costs Texas businesses $9.5 billion annually, and if the obesity rate and the cost of health care continue to increase as projected, the cost to businesses could reach $32.5 billion per year by 2030, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said today. The price tag for obesity is almost triple an estimate Combs released in 2007. …
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Jan 15
Whole food nutrition leads to wellness
Everyone is invited to Longview Medical Center’s Healthy Woman program featuring Danielle Heard, MS, HHC, Certified Holistic Health Counselor and Founder of Artemis in the City on Tuesday, January 18 from 6 to 7 p.m. and learn how to achieve optimum health with whole foods. Danielle, who overcame fibromyalgia and connective tissue disease, cialis 40 …
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Jan 05
UTT introduces accelerated health program
The University of Texas at Tyler (UTT) Department of Health and Kinesiology is offering a new accelerated degree program to commence in the autumn of 2011. Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academics Dr. Peter J. Fos announced the course. The program allows select kinesiology students to take just five years to earn both graduate and …
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