Health

Spring Into Action
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Community Health Staff 
Mar 03, 2025
The spring season offers many enjoyable ways to stay fit outside. It’s recommended that adults get 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week, with a ...
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Protect Yourself
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Community Health Staff 
Aug 01, 2024
Passwords are part of our daily lives and at times, frustration. Creating them and remembering them can be stressful. But a poor password can cause ev...
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Shared Connections
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Rebecca Fortner 
Jul 19, 2024
Finding happiness and meaning takes a village, whether you’re 5 or 95. So says 18-year-old Jenny Schlossberg, whose own village includes her parents a...
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Make Fitness A Habit
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Beth Rush 
Jul 09, 2024
Developing a consistent routine takes time, and turning exercise into a habit can be challenging, but it’s essential to create a ritual that sticks. H...
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Attaining Equilibrium
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Beth Rush 
Jul 09, 2024
Balancing hormones naturally is critical to maintaining overall health and well-being. Hormones are chemical messengers produced by glands in the endo...
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Empowering and Inspiring
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Community Health Staff 
Jul 01, 2024
Each March, as part of professional development offerings, Hampton High School provides a health and wellness fair for teachers, and workshops sponsor...
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A pathway to better well-being
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Community Health Staff 
Jul 01, 2024
Health fairs, wellness fairs, health and wellness fairs — they go by these names and more. Call them what you will, for the terminology is hardly impo...
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ALC-Pelvic Health
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Rebecca Fortner 
Jul 01, 2024
Members of the Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium know and use Highmark’s Virtual Physical Care Program, powered by Sword. This prog...
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Healthy Stretch
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Erin Yarnall 
Jun 07, 2024
It may be fun to be able to touch your toes, but there are a host of health benefits that come with improving your body’s flexibility. And one of the ...
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Breaking the Cycle
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Erin Yarnall 
May 31, 2024
Understanding procrastination can be complicated. It’s used as a coping mechanism to deal with anxiety, but it also can create more anxiety. To help p...
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Don’t Burn Out
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Erin Yarnall 
May 30, 2024
When a person is in a state of complete physical, emotional and mental exhaustion, that’s burnout. There are many factors that can lead someone to suf...
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Midlife 101
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Rebecca Fortner 
Mar 01, 2024
No woman should suffer through symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, doctors say. “Do not let anyone tell you this is just a part of aging, that th...
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Stick to the Basics
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Rebecca Fortner 
Feb 29, 2024
When it comes to skin care, less may be more. Less as in fewer steps and fewer dollars spent, and more as in more focus on the very important steps we...
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