May 23, 2013

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Celebrate Health! at TMC

TMC invites you to Celebrate Health this weekend. Be sure to join them this Saturday from 9am – 1pm at the TMC Ambulatory Care Center in Sherman (corner of Lamberth Road & Hwy 75) for Celebrate Health! Fall Fest.

Event information and an event map can be found at the link below.

On the Web:

http://www.texomamedicalcenter.net/For-the-Community/Fall-Fest-2009


WebMD Health News

AP Top Health Stories

  • Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical

    FILE - This May 10, 2011 file photo shows children at Tracy Elementary School running across a field as they take part in after-school exercise activities on the campus in Baldwin Park, Calif. Reading, writing, `rithmetic _ and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and treat physical education as a core subject. The report says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting at least an hour of vigorous or moderate physical activity every day. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE?


  • Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births

    HOLD FOR RELEASE 12:01 A.M. 05/23/13: Graphic shows the teen birth rate for 15- to -19 year olds for 2011 by stateNEW YORK (AP) — The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.


  • Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

    Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill. The Oklahoma based arts and crafts chain says the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.


  • New J&J anti-depressant related to "Special K" party drug
    By Ransdell Pierson NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a new type of treatment for patients with depression that have failed to benefit from standard medications. The intranasal drug, called esketamine, is closely related to a pediatric anesthetic called ketamine that has been shown in academic studies to rapidly ease symptoms in such patients, including a reduction in suicidal thoughts. Ketamine is also the active ingredient of the mood-altering party drug known as "Special K. ...
  • Push for PE to Fight Childhood Obesity
    An Institute of Medicine report out today makes some ambitious recommendations for physical education requirements in schools, including at least 30 minutes a day of movement during school hours.