Articles Tagged “February 2011”
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Blooms that Brighten expands to Richmond area
Written by Erin Zagursky With the help of about 20 volunteers, two local flower shops recently founded a Richmond branch of Blooms that Brighten, a non-profit organization that provides fresh flowers to patients in nursing…
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Love is in the…Office?
Written By Rita Kikoen, M.B.A. Interoffice dating. Is it happening? Yes. Is it inevitable? Probably. Is it okay? Maybe. Is it healthy? It depends.
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So You Want to Run a 5K?
Written by Daniel A. Shaye, D.C. So you’ve got this idea in your head—you’d like to run a 5K, and someday maybe even a 10K. Maybe you’re motivated to lose a little weight. Perhaps you’d…
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Love Your Skin, 6 Simple Steps
Written by Melissa Schwarzchild, M.D. 1. Wash Gently. Use a gentle cleanser every evening to remove excess oil and make-up from your face. Don’t scrub! If you go to bed with a clean face, washing…
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Cardiovascular Problems Related to Genes, Lifestyle
Myriad factors put African-Americans at increased risk for heart disease Written by Michael Kelly, M.D. Research shows African-Americans have the highest overall mortality rate from coronary heart disease of any ethnic group in the United…
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Ann Marie DeFiglio Campolattaro, M.D.
Written by Sharon Miller Cindrich Dr. Ann Marie Campolattaro, a family doctor at Yorktown Family Practice (part of Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group) since 2004, departed on Nov. 27 as part of a medical team of 50…
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St. Jude & the Tell-Tale Heart
Written by Barbara Shine Literature is full of hearts, both real and metaphorical: Heart of Darkness, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Hearts in Atlantis. But my favorite has always been Edgar Allan Poe’s story,…
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Kiss Love Handles Goodbye
Written By Gayle Pinn, C.P.T
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Two Hearts Don’t Beat As One
Understanding His & Hers Heart Attack Symptoms Written by Christine Browning, M.D. Let’s face it: men and women are different. It’s a fact of life that holds true time and time again, and includes matters…
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Rooted in Health: Sweet potatoes are low-cal and versatile
While most people only enjoy a sweet potato or two at Thanksgiving, this root vegetable is full of vitamins and minerals and should be made part of your diet year-round. “Sweet potatoes are one of…
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Catching a Ride on the ‘Heartache Express’
Written by Skip Miller While I was going for a gurney ride down a corridor at Riverside Regional Medical Center, my father-in-law was taking a similar ride at Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville, N.C.…
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Alden Rice
Written by Maggie Souza Alden Rice, 38, is a mother of three, an interior designer and business owner. And sometimes, she’s Suzy Survivor, a pink-clad superhero with a fighting mentality when it comes to breast…
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It Takes Two: Stay Fit with Partner Training
Partner training is a great way to stay fit while spending time with someone special. Research shows that people who work out with a partner are three times less likely to skip a workout than…
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HEADACHES: For Some, More than a Simple Nuisance
Written by Darren Beilstein, D.P.T.
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Health Care Reform and Your Heart
Written by John E. Brush, Jr., M.D. Health care reform has been one of the most contentious political debates in memory. After a war of words and much political wrangling, President Obama signed the Affordable…
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The Barbershop Effect
Written by Stephen P. Sowulewski Photo by Allen Jones While attending the 2006 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) conference in Los Angeles I met a physician from the Centers for Disease Control…
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Traveling Reese’s Road
Written by Brenda H. Welch Somewhere that Saturday—maybe it was in North Carolina—Melissa Coffin lost her father, her father’s wife and her brother. She knew she was driving like a maniac, and hard for them…
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It’s Getting Personal
Richmond-based HDL Laboratories helps doctors, patients, see all of the pieces. Written by Rachael Yunis Two thousand years ago Hippocrates said, “It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what…
