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mars 25, 2022Like
Vaccine Hesitancy Is Complicating Physicians’ Obligation to Respect Patient Autonomy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
By Ryan Liu, Penn State Sitting barely 6 feet away from me, my patient yelled angrily, his face mask slipping to his upper lip: “No, I will not get vaccinated. And nothing you do or say will change that fact.” He provided no reason for why he was so opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine. As a primary care resident physician working in an underserved area of Reading, Pennsylvania, I have seen patients of all age groups refusing to follow COVID-19 Healthy
mars 25, 2022Like
What Are LISS Workouts & What Do They Do for Our Bodies?
You might have heard the term “LISS” and thought it was yet another new fitness trend that you needed to try. I know I did. While fitness influencers like Kayla Itsines have recently popularized the term, the fact is LISS, or Low Intensity Steady State, exercises have been around since, well, humans started walking. That’s because an example of a LISS workout is actually something as simple as walking. “With LISS workouts you do a low intensity activity, like walking, shek
mars 25, 2022Like
Face Time: Flavia Grey
The senior data strategist at ZGF Architects LLP in Seattle talks about her love of research, design, data analytics … and ballroom dancing. You have a background in design, research, and data analytics. How does this help you in your work? My research and data analytics background brings an objective lens to the design process, which helps tackle cognitive biases. So it’s not about what we think is best; it’s about what the data tells us. What do you like healthcare
mars 25, 2022Like
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Building Replacement Project
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., is planning a $1.7 billion replacement project in West Carson, Calif. Situated on 72 acres around a central park, the center will comprise a 468,000-square-foot acute care inpatient tower with 346 beds, a helicopter landing pad, and 11,000-square-foot warehouse. Project plans also include a 403,000-square-foot outpatient treatment and support building, above-grade parking structure, facilities and IT support building, and a new central plant. Targeting LEED Gold certification, the medical center upgrade will be designed healthcare
mars 25, 2022Like
Two minutes to calm
Try this two-minute exercise to calm your brain and sharpen your thinking Chi Kung is an ancient Taoist practise, a way of being able to influence your own energy. In times of stress, global or otherwise, being able to affect changes in your own energetic state is a really invaluable skill. Overwhelm can take many forms. We experience emotions and sensations that are strong, and they leave us feeling ungrounded, uncentered, scattered or out of control. Coming back to, and happi
mars 25, 2022Like
Aspirus Health Plans $15.8M Replacement Hospital In Michigan
Aspirus Health (Wausau, Wis.) is planning a replacement hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., according to an article in uppermichigansource.com. The $15.8 million Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital will house multiple services under one roof, including family medicine, specialty care, outpatient therapies, diagnostic imaging, and laboratory services. The project will also include centralized registration and easy-access parking. The current hospital will remain open during construction of the new facility, which is expected to begin in spring/early summer. The post Aspirus Health Plans $15.8M Replacement healthcare
mars 25, 2022Like
The Power Of Mantra Healing For Anxiety (With 7 Positive Mantras For Anxiety)
Mantras are a sound, word, or phrase that you repeat during your prayers or while meditating, and in the end, they all help us in one way or another. For example, they help slow our thoughts down, increase our mental capacity, and bring peace of mind. But what is this power? The power behind such healing? The oldest mantras can be found in the ancient Indian religious texts Vedas. When combined with conscious breathwork and rhythm, these positive and calming calmsage
mars 24, 2022Like
4 Things That Happened When I Did an Emotional Detox
Detoxes have been trending for decades, from the infamous cabbage soup diet of the 80s to the current celery craze. These dietary detoxes or “cleanses” are often easily debunkable or too-close to toxic diet culture for our tastes. (Personally, I’m partial to a green juice to kick off my day. However, the idea of surviving on nothing but cabbage soup for three days makes me want to declare war on all vegetables.) But there’s a new kind of detox on shek
mars 24, 2022Like
Navigating a Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In early 2021, Jamie VandenAvond noticed blood in her stool. She was a little concerned, but she was also preoccupied with taking care of a newborn baby in the middle of the pandemic, so she just made a mental note to call her doctor. Then VandenAvond began having urgent bowel movements — running to the bathroom more and more often — and her doctor recommended a colonoscopy. Although bleeding and a change in Healthy
mars 24, 2022Like
Colorectal Cancer 101
Medically reviewed by Dr. Robert Nagourney Colorectal cancer begins in the colon or the rectum, and is also called colon or rectal cancer, depending on where cancer cells are first found. The colon is the part of the large intestine that food moves through, and the rectum is the lower part of the colon where waste is stored before it leaves the body, through the anus. An estimated 106,000 new cases of colon cancer and 44,850 new cases of rectal Healthy
mars 24, 2022Like
Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Colorectal Cancer Screening
Medically reviewed by Dr. Robert Nagourney Colorectal cancer — often called colon cancer — occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow rapidly. The colon is also known as the large intestine or bowel. In the United States, colon cancer is one of the most common cancers. About 1 in 25 women (and 1 in 23 men) develop colon cancer during their lifetimes. Abnormal growths — called polyps — develop in the colon or rectum. Some of these polyps Healthy
mars 24, 2022Like
5 Tricks for Women to Orgasm From Oral Sex
OK, yes, there is more to receiving oral sex than having an orgasm — the closeness and sensation alone can be satisfying — but we can probably all agree that an O is often the cherry on top of an all-consuming, sweaty, oh-my-god-don’t-stop sex session. Getting there, though, can be the difficult part, even if your partner is eager, willing and doing his or her best to send you into the stratosphere. If you find that your O is far, shek