Health And Fitness
How is diabetes diagnosed?
How is diabetes diagnosed?
The fasting blood glucose test is the preferred test for diagnosing diabetes in children and nonpregnant adults. The test is most reliable when done in the morning. ... What is Diabetes?
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism—the way the body uses digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food people eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sug...
Parkinson’s Disease and Laughter Therapy - Meeting July 23rd
How can laughter help patients with Parkinson’s Disease? In more ways than you can think. Laughter can lessen the severity of depression symptoms, increase heart rate, improve respiration, an...
Keep it Cool in Hot Weather: Advice for Older People Applies to All
Older people are at high risk for developing heat-related illness because the body’s ability to respond to summer heat can become less efficient with advancing years. Fortunately, the summer...
LifeServe Blood Drive set for Aug. 2
A Life Serve Blood Drive will take place on August 2, 2013 from
10:30am-2:00pm at VGH in the Cafeteria.
See more information HERE....
Breast cancer survivor donates mammogram capes to VGH Imaging Services
By Monica Stark, Imaging Services
Kathy Lariviere, the wife of Dr. Gene Lariviere (general surgeon at Virginia Gay Hospital) is recovering from breast cancer. She contacted me the ot...
Heat Stroke Symptoms
Heat stroke is the most serious form of heat injury and is a medical emergency. If you suspect that someone has heat stroke -- also known as sunstroke -- you should call 911 immediately and render...
Stay Cool Getting Too Hot Can Be Dangerous
Many people love the warm summer months. But hot and humid days can sometimes be dangerous. It’s not good for the body to be too hot for too long. Too much heat can damage your brain and oth...
How To Whip Whooping Cough: Preventing Pertussis
Many people think of whooping cough as a childhood disease. But it can strike people of any age. Whooping cough—also known as pertussis—causes uncontrollable coughing that makes it har...
Catching a Cold When It’s Warm?
Most everyone looks forward to summer—time to get away, get outside and have some fun. So what could be more unfair than catching a cold when it’s warm? How can cold symptoms arise whe...