Mind and Body

Pat Rattigan did not want to stop playing flag football. He didn’t want to avoid wrestling with his children, or avoid playing pickup basketball games...

They may not be flying, but they do have brooms. The students at Indiana Area Junior High School have brought a little bit of the wizarding world to t...

You’ve hit an especially demanding stretch of work. With your oldest child applying to colleges, financial concerns are keeping you up at night. You g...

Traditional lectures are still one of the most common ways teachers relay information to students in the classroom. For hard-of-hearing and deaf stude...

It’s hard enough, as many of us know, to grow fruits and vegetables in a backyard garden. There’s the tilling and fertilizing of the soil, the constan...

The first thing many people notice about Lindsay Tersmette, social worker with the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, is the way that sh...

For someone dedicated to the wellness of others, it was a bit unsettling for Stephanie Balin to see her own health backsliding. Balin is an exercise s...

September is National Preparedness Month, and in recognition, Community Health spoke to Westinghouse safety experts for tips on how to be more prepare...

Oh, great. A light bulb burnt out. No big deal. You grab a replacement from your junk drawer, change it and everything is square. But what do you do w...

In an ideal world, everyone would know their cholesterol levels and get regular checkups to keep on top of any changes. That awareness is what Dr. Ven...

Among the eight peace officers at Finger Lakes Community College, officer Eric McInroy is known for being physically fit and active. In addition to be...

Changing the oil in your car. Replacing your home’s air filters. Cleaning the fireplace. We all have at least one thing in our life that we have to ma...

Like most engineers, Leigh Ann Brockhoff and Cheryl Hammer like to analyze everything. They need all the data to back them up. So some folks might be ...

In 2014, more than 28,000 people in the United States were killed from opioids, including prescription pain relievers, and heroin, according to the U....

In the two decades since California became the first state to approve a medical marijuana program, similar laws have spread across the country like, w...

Although her life’s work as a nurse is grounded in science, Mary Gross says that even as a child, she was drawn to things that defied conventional wis...

Ask five people what it means to be health literate and chances are you will get five different answers. Health literacy is, after all, a broad topic ...

Each year, the eighth-grade students in Beth Kecskemety’s health education classes watch a presentation on tobacco awareness. The presentation focuses...

Ask a group of experts how much water you should drink, and chances are you’ll get a different answer from each one. Some health and fitness pros stic...

In the 2016-17 academic year, seniors in art classes at New Castle Area Senior High School will help address one of the world’s major health problems:...