Governor Gregoire signed the Zachery Lystedt law on May 14. Washington State now has the toughest return-to-play law in American high school sports. A high school athlete with a concussion cannot return to play without a licensed health care provider’s approval.
Watch Magnificent Mind at Any Age with Dr. Daniel Amen, a psychiatrist, airs tonight at 7:00 p.m. on KSPS, channel 7 . Dr. Amen offers advice on how to keep the brain healthy and improve mental functioning. The Brain Fitness program with neuroscientist Michael Merzenich follows at 8:30.
Go to the Bike To Work website for all the events scheduled, May10-16, to celebrate the Bike to Work Week in Spokane.
Lean more about this vision from the Alzheimer’s Association website.
HBO will show a series , the Alzheimer’s Project, starting Sunday, May 10. The first program will be the Memory Loss Tapes.
Find local resources for Alzheimer’s here.
Read the Spokane County Regional Health District’s latest information on the Swine Flu.
Here is the CDC, Center for Disease Control, Swine Flu information and update on the number of confirmed cases of the disease. Frequently asked questions from the World Health Organization is available in Spanish.
MedlinePlus has a discussion on Swine Flu.
Need more information on how to Live Your Life Well? Read about the 10 Tools that can help you with this quest. If you need to talk to a professional go to How to Find Treatment. The resources include: Depression Screening, Lifeline, and Help For Youth and Families.
Include some of the 10 foods that Build Bones in your weekly diet.
Bone Up On Bone Loss suggests exercise, calcium, and vitamin D to help build and maintain bone strength.
How to Keep Your Bones Healthy from Your Orthopaedic Connection has advice for different age groups on habits that can prevent osteoporosis.
Health Insight has developed a Consumer Guide with 10 questions to help you evaluate health and scientific information. Read about the project to Take Charge of Health Information developed by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Risk Analysis.
Learn what you can do to avoid common illnesses that are spread by contact with animals.
Read the news release Don’t let ticks bug you. For more information read Ticks and Tick-borne diseases, facts on the Hantavirus, and Salmonella.
When does drinking alcohol develop into a health problem? Read Rethinking Drinking to test your knowledge of when drinking habits can become harmful. To download or order this booklet click here.
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