Are you or a loved one interested in hearing more about the latest women’s health issues? Bon Secours for Women is hosting a series of free seminars throughout Hampton Roads in Virginia Beach, Suffolk, and Newport News this month to raise awareness about women’s health issues, including hormone replacement therapy, minimally invasive options for women’s [...]
Preventing Dementia Through Diet
May 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A new study suggests people may be able prevent dementia by eating certain foods that contain omega-3 fatty acids. Fish, chicken, salad dressing and nuts all contain these fatty acids. Eating them may be associated with lower blood levels of a protein related to Alzheimer’s disease and memory problems, according to a news release from [...]
Pain Relief Found Through Therapy, Study Finds
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
People who suffer from chronic pain may sleep and feel more relief if they can learn to avoid focusing on their ailment and to think more positively about their condition, a new study has found. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who published their findings in the journal Pain, studied more than 200 [...]
Binge Drinking Increases Health Risks for Women
April 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, federal health officials are reminding women to avoid binge drinking because of the dangerous health effects associated with this behavior. Binge drinking is when a women consumes four or more drinks or when a man has five or more drinks. Unfortunately, this common and dangerous habit contributes to more [...]
Finding Support When a Baby Dies
April 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Virginia’s infant mortality ranks 25th in the nation, with 6.9 deaths per 1,000 live births. As part of continuing efforts to provide good help to our community, a “When a Baby Dies” workshop was hosted at Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital earlier this year to help [...]
Care-A-Van Expands Services to Downtown Suffolk
April 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
There’s good news for Suffolk, Virginia’s uninsured residents. The Bon Secours Care-A-Van is using a grant from The Obici Healthcare Foundation to extend its services from Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News to include downtown Suffolk starting in May. A mobile health clinic, the Care-A-Van is essentially a doctor on wheels that serves uninsured patients by [...]
Have a Happy, Healthy Heart
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Here’s some news to smile about: having a “positive psychological well-being” appears to lower a person’s risk of heart attack and stroke. In the first and largest review on this subject, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have found that optimism, happiness and being satisfied with life are associated with a lower risk for [...]
Lower Risk of Stroke with Low-Fat Dairy Foods
April 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you want to raise a glass and make a toast to good health, do yourself a favor: fill it with low-fat milk. It turns out that eating low-fat dairy foods can reduce your risk of stroke. Indeed, researchers found adults who ate low-fat dairy foods had a 12 percent lower risk of stroke and [...]
Menthol Smokers More Susceptible to Stroke
April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that menthol cigarette smokers are more likely to have a history of stroke than smokers who prefer other types of cigarettes. Researchers found that menthol cigarette smokers were more than twice as likely to have a stroke than non-menthol smokers. The risk was more [...]