Health

For a fourth consecutive year, The National Urban League and Walgreens are partnering to provide six free health screenings to Philadelphia residents in order to empower them as advocates of their own health and wellbeing.

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Growth in technology is contributing to career options at an increasing rate. Many industries, from information technology to environmental science to health care, benefit from new and enriching career opportunities afforded by rapid advancements.

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More than 30 community leaders joined state Rep. Jewell Williams at his Philadelphia news conference last week to call for a “state of emergency” in response to the city’s alarmingly increasing HIV and AIDS infection rate.

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The risky behaviors were: smoking tobacco; downing more than three alcoholic drinks per day for men and more than two daily for women; getting less than two hours of physical activity per week; and eating fruits and vegetables fewer than three times daily.

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Knowing and monitoring your blood pressure is vitally important in the battle against stroke. That’s why the Jefferson Acute Stroke Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is offering free stroke screenings at a variety of locations.

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Remember that sweet children’s song that advises us to “let the sun shine in” so we can enjoy life? Update it for today’s modern lifestyle, which gets lived in air-tight homes filled with volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and maybe we should add “and let the volatile gases out.”

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For children, hospitals can be a scary and unfamiliar place. Add to that the stress caused by having to undergo numerous treatments and procedures, and the hospital environment can seem even more terrifying to a sick child.

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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program to increase testing and knowledge of HIV status among African Americans has been so successful that it is being extended for three years and expanded to increase other at-risk groups, according to a statement from the CDC.

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The obligation in the new health care law is a Republican idea that’s been around at least two decades. It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s failed health care overhaul in the 1990s. These days, Republicans call it government overreach.

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President Barack Obama signed a major health care overhaul bill Tuesday. Here are some of its features, along with details on a package of changes to the legislation under consideration by the Senate.

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