Relay For Life Teams Celebrate Another Year
On Saturday, June 7 at 9 am, your Relay for Life of Redding will join communities across the globe to honor cancer survivors, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against a disease that...
View ArticleLocal Wound Care Center Joins Healogics, Inc. to Raise Awareness of Chronic...
The Mercy Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, a member of the Healogics network, is participating in the first Healogics National Wound Care Awareness Week from June 2 to June 6. One of...
View ArticleIt’s Not Our Fault … Mostly
Are you wanting to lose a few pounds and be healthier? Are you struggling to stay on a diet? Are you overweight? Are you obese? This covers most of us, doesn’t it? Well, it’s...
View ArticleFirst Indication of West Nile Virus Activity in Shasta County
The first indication of West Nile virus (WNv) has been reported in Shasta County in a positive mosquito sample collected in Anderson, CA.“Although the District has been able to maintain relatively low...
View ArticleHill Country Health and Wellness Center in Round Mountain Designated a Level...
Hill Country Health and Wellness Center has been nationally recognized by NCQA (the National Committee for Quality Assurance) as a “Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home”. Level 3 is the highest level...
View Article1st Annual Redding Out of the Darkness Community Walk!
Join the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention this Fall as they host their 1st annual Community Walk for suicide prevention! The annual Redding Out of the Darkness Community Walk will take place...
View ArticleFloating
Recently, while staying at an Air B&B house in Carpinteria, I was having dinner on the patio with the hostess who so graciously (& deliciously!) prepared it. We were sitting, chatting over...
View ArticleLocal Law Enforcement and Public Health Team up for 9th National Take Back Event
Have you been trying to figure out what to do with your expired, unused and unneeded medications? Do you know that the FDA now recommends NOT disposing of most medications down the drain? We...
View ArticleLittle girls don’t need adult body hangups
There is a little girl who comes into Curves [Editor’s note: now closed] whom I adore. She is chubby. Her roly-poly body parts squash together the way our bodies do before we lose our...
View Article100,000 Chemo Hats Worldwide and Growing
Ginny Hibbard of Redding founded Chuck’s Hats for Chemo in 2003 in honor of her husband, Chuck, who died of cancer a year earlier. Since then, word of Chuck’s Hats for Chemo has gone...
View ArticleRedding’s 2014 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Volunteers working on the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer for Redding walk are recruiting teams and gearing up for this year’s event on Saturday, October 11. Residents and supporters are...
View Article‘Code Black’ Film to Provide Vivid Look at a busy ER; Cascade Screening to...
Code Black is the universal hospital shorthand for alerting staff to the presence of an explosive. In Ryan McGarry’s award-winning documentary of the same name, the American health care system is the...
View ArticleTai Chi: A Chinese Secret to Better Health
In the ancient Chinese medical text entitled the “Huang Di Nei Jing” (circa 200BC) it was said that giving someone medicine after they became sick was like digging a well after they became thirsty...
View ArticleHealthier Living Workshop Offered
Living with or caring for someone who has chronic conditions can be difficult. The Healthier Living workshops are designed to educate individuals and promote self-management of any chronic disease....
View ArticleNorth State Schools and Dignity Health Hospitals take the Great Kindness...
Mercy Medical Center Redding, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta encourage schools and community members to come together and participate in The Great...
View ArticleTrinity Co, Safe Joins Big Lawsuit Against Ca Dept. Of Food and Agriculture
Eleven groups and the city of Berkeley sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture today over the agency’s approval of a statewide “pest management” plan that allows pesticide spraying on...
View ArticleMercy Hospice Offers Volunteer Training
Mercy Hospice is now taking applications for its spring volunteer training class. With a 37-year history, Mercy Hospice offers comprehensive care for area patients and families facing terminal illness...
View Article‘War’ on Cancer? Are We Getting Our Money’s Worth?
“Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies” the documentary by Ken Burns recently played over 3 nights on KIXE. It is inspired by the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It was a fascinating piece that covered...
View ArticleLife Insurance – Because You Care
Life Happens and LIMRA just released the results of the 2015 Insurance Barometer Study. LIMRA is a worldwide research, consulting, and professional development organization that helps more than 850...
View ArticleSpecial Enrollment Period Ends this Week
This is the last week to buy individual insurance under the “Informed of tax penalty” category. This category was established in response to those who claim they did not know they would be charged...
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