Health Matters: Helping Kids Maintain a Healthy Weight July 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN July 2019 Obesity has many causes. At its most basic level, it is caused by more energy going in than is being […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Becoming a Grandma July 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN July 2019 When you find out your child is expecting a baby, it can be both thrilling and a little nerve-racking. This […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Why Women Live Longer June 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN June 2019 June is Men’s Health Month, the month we continue to ignore our health, pretend our symptoms don’t exist, and generally […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Childhood Mental Health June 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN June 2019 Raising children is not easy these days. Between the normal growing pains that come with each age and stage and […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Reducing the Risk of Skin Cancer May 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN May 2019 As spring turns to summer, we’re replacing our sweaters and jeans with t-shirts and shorts, exposing more of our skin […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Addressing the Opioid Crisis: The ABCs of M.A.T. May 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN May 2019 Opioids are drugs that dull people’s pain. Some are illicit drugs like heroin; others are prescription pills like OxyContin, Percocet, […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Helping Kids Have a Healthy Adolescence April 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN April 2019 With all the physical, social and emotional changes and challenges of adolescence these days, how can we help our children […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: No Need to Re-Live the Trauma April 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN April 2019 As we have different experiences, we create memories in different ways. Some experiences become narrative memories—ones where we can tell […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Mendocino County Sees Uptick in Advanced-Stage Colon Cancer March 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN March 2019 I was talking with Karen Oslund, the executive director of the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County and MCHC Health […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Health Matters: Got the Sugar? March 15, 2019 | BY MCHC Health Centers COMMUNITY HEALTH, HEALTH MATTERS/NEWS COLUMN March 2019 Back east, where I did my post-graduate training, my patients used to tell me “Doc, I got the sugar.” It […]... READ THE FULL ARTICLE