Health
Take 10 million steps to help prevent falls: Richland County event set Monday, Sept. 23
COLUMBUS — Monday, Sept. 23, is National Falls Prevention Awareness Day. The Ohio Department of Aging is marking the day with its fifth-annual &...
Genetic mutation linked to flu-related heart complications
COLUMBUS — People with severe flu sometimes develop life-threatening heart problems, even when their hearts have been previously healthy, but th...
CDC warns people against vaping
COLUMBUS — Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Director Amy Acton has announced new initiatives to prevent and reduce youth vaping. This comes follo...
During Suicide Prevention week, talk with your kids: Conversations can save lives
COLUMBUS — According to national statistics, we lose more than 2,000 children and teens per year to suicide. Experts say parents who check in re...
Emotional film about NOT committing suicide showing in Marion
MARION — On Sept. 25, 2000, at age 19, Kevin Hines attempted to take his life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Today he is a world-renown...
Community Counseling fundraiser includes, cars, flea market
BUCYRUS — On a brisk Saturday morning last weekend, people packed in to see classic cars, shop at a flea market and help those less fortunate du...
Agency on Aging’s 2019 Positive Aging Expo is Sept. 24
ONTARIO — The 11th annual Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging Positive Aging Expo is Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019 at the Richland County Fairgrounds...
Opinion column: Primates necessary for medical research
Lawmakers have recently increased efforts to introduce legislation that would impose strict reporting requirements on medical research involving monke...
Ohio drug deaths decline; but still much to do
COLUMBUS — Ohio drug deaths declined by 22 percent in 2018, which is the first time the state saw a decrease in nine years, but Gov. Mike DeWine...
ODH eyeing more reports of illness after vaping
COLUMBUS — State and local public health officials in Ohio have confirmed that three reports of severe pulmonary illness after vaping are likely...
