National Wear Red Day

Let’s dress up!! Sister loves red.  Red is a color full of life, energy and pizzaz.  It makes her feel fancy. So you can imagine Sister’s glee when the American Heart Association launched the National Wear Red Day. The following are some statistics...

Exercise – A New Vital Sign

Kaiser Permanente conducted a study to access whether or not physical activity can be useful as a vital sign in patient assessment.  The researchers looked at data from 1.7 million outpatient visits. Kaiser, always at the forefront of health prevention, asked patients...

Designing Healthy Communities

A medical doctor talking about healthy communities? Say what?  You read right.  Richard Jackson, MD, MPH is a renaissance doctor.  He is championing what no one in the medical community has dared to examine: that the way our environments are built has an impact on the...