Real Men Wear Gowns: New screening process for colon cancer

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from KREM by Mark Hanrahan SPOKANE, Wash. – There is a good chance you or someone you know has visited a CHAS clinic in Spokane. However, you may not know about the organization’s recent push to screen more patients for colon cancer. “We went from 8.5% screening rate up to 33% last […]

MSU to be a tobacco-free campus this fall

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from The State News by Sasha Zidar CLICK HERE In August 2016, Michigan State University will officially be a tobacco-free campus. The MSU Board of Trustees approved for a tobacco-free campus in 2015 to help ensure that the Spartan community enjoys a healthy lifestyle on campus. In April 2013, the Office of […]

Wichita Falls Smoking Ban Grace Period Ends; All Bars and Restaurants Now Smoke-Free

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from NewsTalk 1290 HERE Friday, June 17 marks the end of the two-year grace period of the Wichita Falls smoking ban and all bars and restaurants in the city are now smoke-free. City councilors voted the approval of the smoking ban in 2014 with the amendment that would allow patrons of bars and […]

June National Native Network Newsletter

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD JUNE NATIONAL NATIVE NETWORK NEWSLETTER Featured in this issue: Traditional Foods Toolkit American Indian Commercial Tobacco Program Information Chris Cooper Blog Tammi Meissner Blog Infographics

15 Minutes of Daily Exercise May be Reasonable Target in Older Adults

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Science Codex HERE Sophia Antipolis – June 14, 2016: Fifteen minutes of daily exercise is associated with a 22% lower risk of death and may be a reasonable target for older adults, reveals research presented today at the EuroPRevent 2016 meeting by Dr David Hupin, a physician in the Department of Clinical […]

3 Detroit nonprofits focus on making city healthy

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Marti Benedetti from Crain’s Detroit Little did former Detroit Mayor Hazen Pingree know in 1894 that his fervor for growing produce in Detroit would return in 2016. But that is exactly what is happening, according to three Detroit nonprofits at the 24th Annual Congress for New Urbanism. Pingree was beloved and best […]

Yoga classes for kids are leaving them stress-free

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Gina Silva from FOX LA At a small school in Inglewood, California, students are learning for the first time, the benefits of yoga. Eight-year-old Mekhi Mitchell says, “Yoga helps me by making me less angry, more happy, and less mad.” Yoga classes are taught as part of the physical education program […]

Do picture warnings on cigarettes increase quit attempts?

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from MedicalNewsToday.com by Marie Ellis CLICK HERE Results of the study are published in JAMA Internal Medicine. According to the study authors, the United States led the world by being the first to require cigarette pack warnings in 1966. However, since then, the country has fallen behind others in implementing effective pack […]

New pre-surgery technique may make colostomy bags redundant for emergency bowel cancer patients

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from MedicalNewsToday.com HERE An expandable tube that unblocks the bowel before surgery could lead to fewer cancer patients being diagnosed as emergencies and needing a colostomy bag. The Cancer Research UK-funded CReST trial presented at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago today (Sunday) found that less […]

How altered gut microbes cause obesity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from ScienceDaily.com HERE In an earlier study, Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., the George R. Cowgill Professor of Medicine, observed that acetate, a short-chain fatty acid, stimulated the secretion of insulin in rodents. To learn more about acetate’s role, Shulman, who is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a team […]
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