Preventive medicine cuts health care costs
Preventive medicine and wellness measures reduce disease costs by promoting early outpatient treatment, annual risk assessments, and healthy lifestyles. Family physicians provide screenings for diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension, cancer, and access to mental health and home care resources, amid rural access challenges in Franklin County.
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Franklin County
Involved Dads Guide to Nurturing Children
A community service column from The Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City offers practical steps for fathers to bond with their babies. It covers caring routines, reading, homework help, milestones, rules, communication, medical care, and thoughtful notes to reinforce security and involvement in a child’s life.
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Arenthood
Children’s Mercy
Rochelle Harris
Children’s Mercy Hospital of
Kansas City
Missouri
Exercise boosts immune function in elderly study says
A review in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise links endurance activity to stronger immune defenses in seniors. Researchers note higher T and natural killer cell activity among exercisers, with a study by Nieman and Henson of Appalachian State showing lower disease susceptibility after a 12 week, moderate walking program for previously sedentary women averaging 73 years old.
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Washington
American College of Sports Medicine
Journal, Medicine and Science
David C. Nieman
Dru A. Henson
Appalachian State University
Boone, N.C
Clinton to lobby in KC for health care reform tour
President Clinton will visit Kansas City next week as part of a national tour to drum up support for health care reform. A 90 minute live town hall on KCTV will have 100 to 200 audience members selected from mailed questions. He will also visit Topeka and Omaha before the Kansas City broadcast hosted by Wendall Anschutz.
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Kansas City
Clinton
KCTV
Channel 5
Don North
North
Topeka
Omaha
Neb
Town Hall
Wendall Anschutz
Clinton Town Hall
P.O
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