Alberta’s first park dedicated to enhancing mental health officially opened in Calgary on Saturday. The climbing boulder has become a popular spot to scramble up the Brawn Family Foundation Rotary Park in northwest Calgary. Like everything else at the park, it was designed with teens
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Take care of your teeth to boost brain health, ward off Alzheimer’s risk
Poor dental health can lead to decline in brain volume, and increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, warned a study. The study, published in the journal Neurology, found that gum disease and tooth loss were linked to brain shrinkage in the hippocampus, which plays a
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UM Today | Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
September 13, 2023 — When Cody Magun donned his white coat at the Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry’s White Coat Ceremony last week, he was one step closer to realizing his dream of becoming a dentist. That dream began in a small Yukon town when
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New Whitman-Walker Max Robinson Center opens with more health care resources in DC’s Ward 8
The new Whitman-Walker Max Robinson Center, on D.C.’s St. Elizabeth’s East campus, will be able to provide dental, primary and HIV care to residents. A slogan, “We see you,” is part of the message outside the new Whitman-Walker Max Robinson Center on D.C.’s St. Elizabeth’s
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5 ‘health’ foods that you probably don’t realize are ultra-processed, according to a dietitian
Dietitian Taylor Grasso says that some salad kits include additives and added salt and sugar.Taylor Grasso/ getty Some foods marketed as “healthy” are actually ultra-processed. But they can still be eaten in moderation, a dietitian said. Taylor Grasso told Insider her tips for including them
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DVIDS – News – Environmental Health works behind the scenes to keep Soldiers ready
“I didn’t know what the extent of my job would entail when I came to Environmental Health,” said Spc. Johnathan Vargas who is a preventive medicine specialist at Kenner Army Health Clinic Environmental Health. “Most people don’t understand all that we do. We work
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New Kentucky laws take effect: Health, education, sports wagering and more | Kentucky
Many of the laws passed by the General Assembly during the 2023 legislative session will go into effect Thursday, but not all of them. For a bill to become a law in Kentucky, both the state Senate and House of Representatives must give a majority
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Assessing changes in the quality of quantitative health educations research: a perspective from comm…
The larger CoP for medical education research has changed over the past couple of decades in ways that these results may reflect. There has been an increase in the number of medical education research journals. This may have acted to decrease the number of submissions
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