Health & Fitness

Published January 15, 2020

METRO DETROIT — It’s another early Saturday morning, and Angelo Taormina is lacing up his ice skates. Like he has done for the past three decades, he’s preparing to take the ice at Hazel Park Ice Arena with friends and family for their weekly drop-in hockey game. The puck drops at 8:20 a.m.

Published January 15, 2020

Rochester Post

Seniors prepare for Michigan Senior Olympics Winter Games

ROCHESTER — When Craig Butler turned 50 last March, he jumped at the chance to participate in the Michigan Senior Olympics.

Published January 14, 2020

Advertiser Times

Healthy Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods looks back on first year of operation

HARPER WOODS — The Healthy Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods initiative has completed its first year of operation, and community leaders in Harper Woods have hailed the strides made by the organization.

Published January 13, 2020

Farmington Press

Farmington Hills baby waits for heart transplant

FARMINGTON HILLS — Being a parent innately comes with challenges, but there’s no greater challenge than sitting bedside at a hospital, watching your child fight to live.

Published December 30, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Educators say gym class has changed over the years

METRO DETROIT — Grown-ups: If the sight of a scoreboard still makes you queasy and the screech of a whistle sends a shiver down your spine, you’re not alone.

Families Against Narcotics Executive Director Linda Davis, right, hugs Erin Whitkopf, data coordinator at Hope Not Handcuffs, during the program’s two-year celebration Feb. 1 at Christ Church in Fraser. Davis was recently honored for FAN’S work with the rural community in the state.

Published December 27, 2019

Fraser - Clinton Township Chronicle

FAN executive director earns honor for work in rural areas

FRASER — Linda Davis, executive director of Families Against Narcotics, was recently honored as a “community star” by the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, or NOSORH.

Published December 27, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Doctors offer advice for flu season

METRO DETROIT — The holidays may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it also is flu season. Some basic tips can help people avoid the flu so that they can keep their new year a happy one.

Published December 25, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Get motivated to get fit with a wearable device

METRO DETROIT — Carolyn Wilson, of St. Clair Shores, got her first activity tracker three years ago — a Fitbit.

Published December 6, 2019

Warren Weekly

Jump With Jill highlights nutrition through rock show

WARREN — Clad in shiny pants, tennis shoes that lit up, a pink hair bow and a T-shirt with a cool design, Catherine Baird was every bit the rock ’n’ roll star when she visited Cromie Elementary School the afternoon of Dec. 2.

Published December 4, 2019

Farmington Press

Farmington High student brings Stop the Bleed kits, training to school

FARMINGTON — Farmington High School student and Boy Scout Troop 45 member Matt Dresden knew when he started working on his Eagle Scout project more than a year ago that he wanted to help improve the community’s safety.

Macomb Lutheran North students participate in the Gift of Life HOSA Challenge in November. Lutheran North registered 32 people, while statewide, there were over 1,300 new registrations.

Published December 3, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

Macomb Township schools recognized for registering organ donors

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Gift of Life Michigan indicates that approximately 3,200 Michigan patients are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants.

A group gathered outside of Beaumont Hospital’s pediatric unit spreads holiday cheer through the hospital’s Moonbeams for Sweet Dreams program last year. The event will take place at 8 p.m. Dec. 1-25. All you need is a flashlight.

Published November 22, 2019

Royal Oak Review

Lights to make Christmas bright for young hospital patients

ROYAL OAK — Beaumont Hospital’s popular “Moonbeams for Sweet Dreams” initiative will return for a third year Dec. 1-25.

Published November 19, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Beaumont facilities must provide interpreters, aids to deaf

ROYAL OAK/TROY/GROSSE POINTE — The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a settlement with William Beaumont Hospital following an investigation of allegations that Beaumont had failed to provide sign language interpreters and other aids to deaf patients for complex medical procedures despite repeated requests — in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Published November 18, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Health Division reports first flu death in Oakland County

OAKLAND COUNTY — Oakland County Health Division has reported the first flu-associated death in the county after a 69-year-old man passed away Nov. 7.

Published November 18, 2019

Farmington Press

People power needed to push local MS awareness forward in Farmington Hills

FARMINGTON HILLS — As people gear up to give back this holiday season, Tanya Nordhaus, of Farmington Hills, said people power — donations of their time and efforts — may be worth more than money.

Published November 13, 2019

C&G Newspapers

Families, first responders share lifesaving Narcan accounts

METRO DETROIT — It might be easy for some to dismiss the life of a drug user, to think they’ve made a choice and will live — or maybe die — with the consequences.

Pawfficer Badges enjoys life at Leuk’s Landing in Ann Arbor after she was diagnosed with leukemia, which occurred before she could assume her duties as head of the Troy Police Department Feline Unit.

Published November 12, 2019

Troy Times

Pawfficer Badges highlights feline leukemia

TROY — Although Pawfficer Badges, now 1 1/2, had to pass on the purrfect pawsition as head of the newly formed Troy Police Department Feline Unit due to health reasons, she is now the spokescat for the cause of feline leukemia — and doing well.

Published November 12, 2019

Macomb Township Chronicle

Family Night Out at Dakota High focuses on youth vaping

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — Dakota High School’s first Family Night Out of the school year was all about vaping awareness.

Published November 12, 2019

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Birmingham to host forum on new water standards

BIRMINGHAM — Just a few weeks after the state of Michigan said that Birmingham had high lead levels in water at certain homes, like several other municipalities sampled under new testing standards, the city has invited residents to a community water forum to discuss the issue.

Published November 5, 2019

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Roseville Community Schools to host presentation on vaping

ROSEVILLE — Roseville Community Schools will host a program on vaping and vape products to help educate families on what school officials are calling a growing problem.