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Today The Californian held its health fair for employees.
And like most health fairs, this one included several free tests. You have the crack-out-the-calipers body fat test. The slip-this-up-your-arm blood pressure test.
And the it's-just-a-little-prick cholesterol and blood sugar tests.
I thought, what the heck, it would be good for me to find these out. And, boy, I'm glad I did.
I have high cholesterol!
I admit I'm slightly overweight, but I've never really done badly on any other...
I admit my pinkish purple bicycle has gotten a bit dusty sitting on my porch for the last few months.
Yes, I know...pink.
I don't fancy myself as a pink-kind-of-girl, but, hey, I got the bike for free from Bike Bakersfield. And the hardy Schwinn got me around the bike path several times last summer.
Maybe I'll bust it out to pay homage to my bike's source by attending some of the organization's Bike Month events in May.
And considering gas prices are OUTRAGEOUS right now and exercise is...
Testing done by a Chicago newspaper found trace amounts of the bug repellent DEET in the city's drinking water.
"In this age of West Nile virus, Lyme disease and other insect-borne health threats, millions of Americans have made slathering and spritzing themselves with the powerful repellent DEET part of their summer routine," according to the story published yesterday in the Chicago Sun-Times. "And now, testing done for the Chicago Sun-Times has found, it's in our drinking...
A representative from the county Public Health Services Department recently went to a San Diego meeting of the minds of valley fever experts.
As relayed to me by interim Public Health Officer Dr. Claudia Jonah, these are the main points to come out of the meeting:
1. Skin test screening
The researchers are looking at some skin tests that could determine if someone has had valley fever, she said.
Roughly 60 percent of valley fever cases are asymptomatic. By determining who has the...
Paige Atkison's fundraiser at The Ice House last weekend was a success, her mother says.They raised $5,275 to go toward Operation Smile, which cares for children with cleft lips and palates in the Third World. (Read "A good time and a good cause at the salon Saturday" that ran in last week's Californian.)Paige created her own charity, Smile Missions, after she learned the doctor who operated on her cleft lip and palate does missions for Operation Smile. (Read "Beautiful...
Kern stands alone.
The county’s above average number of meningococcal infections aren’t being seen in other counties, state health officials told me today.
Twenty-one Kern County residents have suffered meningococcal infections since Dec. 10, local officials announced Wednesday. (Read "County issues alert over high number of meningitis cases" that ran in today's Californian.)
Most of these are meningococcal meningitis, which is inflammation of the membranes covering...
Almost every health official and expert I've talked to has said roughly the same thing about drug-resistant staph infections: They're a big problem.
One expert even called it an "epidemic."
The state recently made these infections, known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, reportable to help experts better understand who it infects and how to prevent it. (Read "Reporting staph infections may add burden" that ran in February in The Californian.)
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