Health
End of life: ‘What will your story be?’
Harold Jordan, Susanna Lund and James Cook are also members of the local care team for patients facing ...
Health
‘What will your story be?’
Harold Jordan, Susanna Lund and James Cook are also members of the local care team for patients facing ...
Health
End of life: Nicholses call family meeting
When Daisy Nichols read about the hospice seminar offered recently, she and husband Jim immediately marked their calendar. ...
Health
Nicholses call family meeting
When Daisy Nichols read about the hospice seminar offered recently, she and husband Jim immediately marked their calendar. ...
Health
End of life: Doctors, patients need rapport
Dr. Chetan Amin said his family has considered discussing his parents’ wishes for their end-of-life care but they’re ...
Health
End of life: Talking about care with family is important
Editor’s note: This story is part of a two-day series on end-of-life health care. It concludes Monday. By ...
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End of life: Talking about care is important
Editor’s note: This story is part of a two-day series on end-of-life health care. It concludes Monday. By ...
Health
End of life: Doctors, patients need rapport
Dr. Chetan Amin said his family has considered discussing his parents’ wishes for their end-of-life care but they’re ...
Food
Grow, prepare butternut squash this holiday season
As the holiday season approaches, calls start to flood the Rowan County Cooperative Extension office inquiring about recipes, ...
Health
Salisbury High junior works to raise awareness for diabetes after being diagnosed with type 1 last month
It started in July when Lindsay Veros became excessively thirsty. “Being the mom that I am, I said ...
Health
The Epilepsy Foundation of N.C., along with the UNC-Charlotte Athletic Department, is sponsoring a Fall Stroll for Epilepsy. ...
Health
Hospice offers session on planning for end-of-life issues
Rowan Hospice & Palliative Care, a collaboration of Rowan Regional Hospice and Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, will be ...
Health
More patients shopping for health care
Paul Freeman drove 600 miles last year to save himself — and his employer — thousands of dollars ...
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A forum about end-of-life health care decisions and planning will be held from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 12 ...
Health
Girls Fitness Club, Open to Everyone
They had been best friends for years. Rianna Cress and Taylor Darby had been exercising together and doing ...
Health
Bone marrow drive ‘Swab Party’ set for Nov. 2
Register to be a bone marrow donor during the “Delete Blood Cancer Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive” from ...
Health
Recovery takes heart, brains and courage
We are all broken in some way, but we don’t have to stay that way, psychologist Dr. Chris ...
Health
Crisis intervention training helps police understand mental illness
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of columns written in observance of National Mental Illness Awareness ...
Health
Lessons in self-care for healthy holiday season
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of columns written in observance of National Mental Illness Awareness ...
Health
Root cause of disease is multifactorial
The future of our health may lie in the next 1,000 words. The root cause of most disease ...
Health
Danica gets pink car for breast cancer awareness
NEW YORK (AP) — Danica Patrick’s familiar GoDaddy green will be gone the entire month of October as ...
Health
Studies test how early in life to peek inside DNA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Little Amelia Sloan became a pioneer shortly after her birth. The healthy baby is part ...
Health
FDA approves first pre-surgical breast cancer drug
WASHINGTON (AP) — A biotech drug from Roche has become the first medicine approved to treat breast cancer ...
Health
Follow-up confirms many hormone risks, benefits
CHICAGO (AP) — The longest, most comprehensive follow-up yet of women given hormone pills during landmark government research ...
Food
KANNAPOLIS — Researchers at the Cheatham Nutrition and Cognition Lab are currently recruiting participants for the B. E. ...
Health
Hospital wants ideas on fighting obesity
SALISBURY — Let the brainstorming begin. About 20 community leaders signed on to a Novant Health website Friday ...
Health
Active summer tick season brings health risks for children
Tick-borne illnesses, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and others, pose a special health threat to children, ...
Health
Radiation therapy reduced from 6 weeks to 5 days
CONCORD — Twice a day for five days Salisbury resident Evelyn Craig and her husband, Robert, drove to ...
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