Cold weather comes with winters in Pennsylvania and with the freezing temperatures, windchill, ice and snow also come an added risk for potential exposure injuries. While some love the winter wonderland, others may want to hunker down in their homes and wait it out until spring. Consider the ...
Evangelical Community Hospital welcomes several advanced practitioners to its family of services. Advanced practitioners are a group of medical professionals that include physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses, who have higher levels of training and certifications, allowing them to care for patients in a variety of care settings. Advanced practitioners joining or moving within the hospital’s family of practices are: Jason Barrett, Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner — Critical Care Nocturnist, January 2022; Alysha Beck, Certified Physician Assistant ...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages. In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office were ...
At the start of a new year, it’s customary to make a new goal or resolution. Some of the most common are related to eating healthier or dieting. While these resolutions are set with good intentions, it can be hard to know how to get started and maintain this new lifestyle. Don’t ...
One of the first studies to track whether COVID-19 vaccination might affect women’s periods found a small and temporary change. Research published Wednesday tracked nearly 4,000 U.S. women through six menstrual cycles and on average, the next period after a shot started about a day later than usual. But there was no change in the number of days of menstrual bleeding after COVID-19 vaccination. “This is incredibly reassuring,” said Dr. Alison Edelman of Oregon Health & Science University, who led the research and said it’s important to tell women what to expect. Some women ...
LOCK HAVEN — Lock Haven University recently received the Rural Health Program of the Year award, presented by the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health (PORH), for their response to the COVID-19 virus. The award was presented by Lisa Davis, director of PORH and outreach associate professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, on Nov. 15 on campus. An awards ceremony at LHU was previously planned for Nov. 15 but was postponed to mitigate the potential for COVID-19 transmission. It will be rescheduled for a time when the ceremony can be held outdoors. The Rural Health ...
