By Lisa Turpin, Health & Wellness Coach
According to the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual international survey of 4,500 health and fitness professionals, released Dec. 28, Wearable Technology will be the top global fitness trend in 2023. The fitness professionals were polled on 42 potential trends, and ACSM reported...
By Kay Leaman, Health Architect
Welcome to 2023! Now that our holiday celebrations are over, we’re falling back into the routines of daily life. However, I’d like to challenge you to start something new.
Let’s digress.
The mind is amazing and it will give us exactly what we focus on. A speaker...
The White-Wilson Community Foundation works to build partnerships that improve access to health services and care for underserved individuals in the community. Through its community health grant program, it presented Fresh Start for Children and Families Inc. and Mental Health Association of Okaloosa Walton Inc. with grants on Nov....
The White-Wilson Community Foundation partnered with Special Olympics Florida to provide free sports physicals to local athletes throughout Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton Counties recently at White-Wilson Medical Center’s main campus in Fort Walton Beach.
Volunteers from White-Wilson Medical Center conducted the routine physicals for nearly 30 athletes in need...
By Richard Chern, M.D.
Hormone therapy can be traced back over 2000 years when the Chinese isolated pituitary and sex hormones for medicinal purposes. The hormones had not been identified, but the benefits were already known. Of course, many discoveries have occurred since then and today we are not only...
By Matthew Eaton
In October, more than 350 gathered at Northwest Florida State College for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Participants raised more than $65,000 to fund care and support programs and critical research to, ultimately, find a cure. Melody Wood traveled from Alaska to walk in honor of her...
By Samuel King Jr.
Physicians with the 96th Medical Group completed the first robotic-assisted surgery here Nov. 2. Using the unit’s new DaVinci Robotics System, the team performed a successful hernia repair operation. The unit has plans to use the quad-armed robot for most general and even complex procedures in...
By Lori Leath Smith
It’s a Tuesday morning, and I find myself in a morning staff huddle at the Hope Medical Clinic. The Clinic’s director, Tim Roberts, listens intently and compassionately, gives directions and perhaps courses of action, so all staff know what to expect and are ready for their...
By Greg Durette
Now that the Medicare Annual Election Period (AEP) is over, you can finally take a breather from all those ads, phone calls and mailers. Come Jan. 1, you will have a chance to try out your new Medicare Advantage, Supplement and/or Prescription plan.
If you suddenly discover the...
