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Synthetic-drug use skyrockets, as do trips to hospital ERs
Until he tried a marijuana look-alike product called “K2,” David Rozga’s most dubious decision was getting a Green Bay Packers tattoo on his shoulder.
Licorice licked psoriasis lesions
Q. I suffered from psoriasis on my hands and elbows for more than 22 years. I accidentally
Telemedicine
On the top floor of St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, doctors and nurses watch banks of video feeds, peering in on intensive-care patients at rural hospitals across the Midwest.
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST | Speaker planned
Tony Perone, director of the Youngstown Boys & Girls Club, is the speaker for Wednesday’s meeting of The First Ohio Chapter of the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health.
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST | Walk MS planned
Walk MS Mahoning Valley, sponsored by Giant Eagle and EMD Serono/Pfizer, is April 30 at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
Links chapter’s health fair will draw ‘300 Sisters in Red’
The Youngstown Chapter of The Links, Inc. will have its annual health fair, “300 Sisters in Red,” from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 16 at Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley Center.
Studies question heart procedures
Two new studies could change care for hundreds of thousands of heart patients each year.
Heart-valve replacement device shows promise in elderly patients
A long-awaited study suggests that many people with a bad aortic valve, the heart’s main gate, can avoid open-heart surgery and have a new one placed through a tube in an artery instead.
Physicians answer questions at annual health-care seminar
High-risk behaviors, prolonged depression, stockpiling medications — and even sudden elation — often are precursors for suicide, a psychologist and participant in a health-care seminar warned.
Vitamin E can help with scars
Q. When I had knee- replacement surgery, the physical therapist recommended cocoa butter with
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST | Spring symposium
Spring symposium SHARON, PA. Tuesday is the deadline to register for the Women’s Center of
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST | Check Out Hunger
Through April 23, Sparkle Market customers can help Check Out Hunger, a program to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.
Searching for sleep
Peter Manschot woke up in a hotel room and found his wife, Emily, sleeping in the bathroom.
HEALTH NEWS DIGEST | Physicians conference planned
Conference planned LIBERTY A Minority Physicians Conference, sponsored by The Mahoning Valley
Kids’ instruments booming with bacteria
The musical instruments kids play in school bands and orchestras are traveling denizens of bacteria and fungi, say the authors of a new study.