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Good For You?: Weight Watchers

I am a serial dieter.I have tried the peanut butter diet, the ice cream diet, low-carb diet, Alli, Richard Simmons Food Mover, The Birmingham Cardiac Diet, 21 Day Fix, SlimFast and many more than I can’t even recall.One “diet plan” that I always seem to come back to is Weight Watchers.I ...

Health Briefs 01-18-16

Classes, seminarsn Childbirth and labor preparation courses, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Community Room 1, main lobby, Uniontown Hospital. Nurses will teach participants about pregnancy discomforts, labor and delivery, pain relief options, potential complications, breathing and relaxation, self and ...

Health Briefs 01-11-16

Classes and seminarsn Innovations in Medicine: Wide-Awake Surgery, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Anthony M. Lombardi Education Conference Center, Monongahela Valley Hospital. Dr. Gerson Florez, orthopedic surgeon, will discuss the latest in wide-awake surgery and its application as an alternative anesthesia ...

Health Briefs 01-04-16

Support groupsn Caring Corner Grief Support Program for families and children, 6-8 p.m. every Monday, East End United Community Center, Uniontown. Information: 724-437-1660.n Survivors of Incest Anonymous meeting, 6:30-8 p.m. every Monday, Mount St. Macrina Retreat Center, Uniontown. The group ...

Health Briefs 12-28-15

Classes/seminarsn The Safe Sitter program, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 29, Community Room 1, main lobby, Uniontown Hospital. During the class the child will learn about safety for the sitter, safety precautions to prevent accidents from happening, how and when to call for help, basic life saving ...

Proper dental care should start early

In an article that was shared in the American Journal of Public Health, “Children with poor oral health status were nearly three times more likely than were their counterparts to miss school as a result of dental pain.”In addition to missing school, children who have oral and dental ...