Health News

• A 'guardian angel' for parents - 7/3/2008

  It's the ultimate nightmare: A child with a chronic health condition, and an overwhelmed, frightened parent trying to deal with insurance, money, time, education and care issues. Sometimes you're running so hard it's hard to know where to turn for...

  
• These boots were made for boot camp - 7/3/2008

  Balancing on a medicine ball while doing push-ups, Beth Brosnan literally was overlooking the Squamscott River in Exeter.

  
• She's quitting Quitting - 7/3/2008

  At some point since beginning to write this column, 'round about December, I realized this: that writing about quitting was antithetical to actually quitting. When the subject is the struggle, it dies along with the fight.

• Help & support - 7/3/2008

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• Healthy eating out with children - 6/29/2008

  With busy lifestyles and sometimes both parents working, families often resort to eating out or take-out for many of their lunch and/or dinner meals. This means that a lot more children and teens are eating a large percentage of their food intake...

  
• Local breast cancer hotline Fill the Gap marks one year - 6/26/2008

  When you've faced and survived one of the most frightening episodes of your life, what do you do? Help the next gal get through it, of course.

  
• He stopped eating junk and started moving it - 6/26/2008

  When Bill Paesano was a finance manager for a leasing company, he had little time or energy to exercise after working six days a week, 12 hours a day.

  
• To sunscreen or not to sunscreen? - 6/26/2008

  All New Englanders have lived it, talked about it ad nauseam; it is a rite of passage to bundle up like the Michelin Man so you can go out and play in frigid weather, toboggan, make snow forts and the like.

• Snacking on the job - 6/22/2008

  Does the vending machine at work call your name about 10 a.m. or the convenience store down the street beckon you to leave work on your afternoon break to answer the grumbling in your stomach?

• Relay for Life WHS grad walks as cancer survivor - 6/20/2008

  Debbie Elkins is taking part in the Relay for Life because she knows first-hand how cancer can affect a life.

  
• WHS grad walks as cancer survivor - 6/20/2008

  Debbie Elkins is taking part in the Relay for Life because she knows first-hand how cancer can affect a life.

  
• A life 'Including Samuel' - 6/19/2008

  Samuel Habib's beaming grin and delightful giggle will make anyone smile. The energetic, impish 7-year-old seen in the film "Including Samuel" — made by his father, photographer and documentarian Dan Habib — has cerebal palsy. He...

  
• Outdoor swim meets — good view, tough current - 6/19/2008

  Dave Babin admitted that when he told some friends he was swimming in the Charles River in Boston this past weekend they were apprehensive.

  
• Quitting: Defenders, doublespeak and addiction - 6/19/2008

  Not smoking is not going so well for me right now. In other words, I am not not smoking because I am sick of trying to quit. I stopped fighting it, and quicker than the proverbial wink, smoking made its way back into my life.

• Health and taste unite on your dinner plate - 6/15/2008

  Healthy eating has become a major topic of discussion these days. Whether you open a newspaper or magazine, turn on the TV or radio, or just listen to conversations around you — food, dieting and health are common themes. Although food is...

• Forum on health coming to Exeter - 6/13/2008

  United Way of the Greater Seacoast, in partnership with Exeter Hospital and its operating affiliates: Core Physicians, Exeter Healthcare and Rockingham VNA, is conducting a comprehensive assessment of health and human services needs in the region to...

• What is Lyme disease? - 6/13/2008

  Lyme disease (LD) is controversial, a distinction usually reserved for sexually-transmitted diseases. The misunderstandings and misdiagnosis of the tick-borne disease have made its diagnosis a battlefield with the public and in the medical community.

• Living with lyme disease - 6/13/2008

  With every spring season comes warnings about Lyme disease. The bacterial infection is most often contracted through the bite of the black-legged or deer tick and, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the highest incident rate for the...

  
• Daryl Hall speaks out on battle with Lyme disease - 6/12/2008

  With every spring season comes warnings about Lyme disease. The bacterial infection is most often contracted through the bite of the black-legged or deer tick and, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the highest incident rate for the...

  
• Lyme treatment at center of debate - 6/12/2008

  "The debate about the existence of chronic Lyme — that is Lyme-type symptoms that have lasted longer than six months — has been around for quite some time," says Dr. Don McNeel, of Hampton's Seacoast Lyme Center.

  
• I'm a green goddess. No, I am! - 6/12/2008

  A few months back I wrote a column on recycling. A friend was truly upset by the lack of it in public and work places. That launched a conversation with numerous groups of friends.

• What is Lyme disease? - 6/12/2008

  Lyme disease (LD) is controversial, a distinction usually reserved for sexually-transmitted diseases. The misunderstandings and misdiagnosis of the tick-borne disease have made its diagnosis a battlefield with the public and in the medical community.

• Quitting: The story of Patty's piano - 6/12/2008

  Quick sensitiveness is inseparable from a ready understanding.

• When third-graders hit the road - 6/12/2008

  When Richard Johnston began teaching elementary school three years ago, he happened to mention to his third-graders that he planned to run in a road race during one of his weekends.