Tuesday, June 3, 2008

How To Play Golf Safe In The Sun

To promote sun safety and skin cancer prevention among golf enthusiasts, who face heightened risks of developing skin cancer due to prolonged sun exposure, dermatologists representing WDS provided free skin cancer screenings and sun damage assessments.

Monday, June 2, 2008

How to Dress for Hot Weather Running

When the weather's warm, the right running clothes can mean the difference between a comfortable run and a miserable one. Follow these tips for how to dress properly for hot...

Injuries To High School Baseball Players Becoming More Serious

New study calls for increased use of protective equipment to reduce in school sports related injuries, particularly in regard to baseball-related injuries.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Technological Interventions Merge Into Health And Fitness

ACSM's Exercise is Medicine program encourages all physicians and healthcare professionals to examine patients' physical activity programs at every visit.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Exercise in Adolescence Linked To Breast Cancer Lower Rate

Women who were physically active as teens and young adults were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who grew up sedentary.

Running Clubs Recruit for Wellness

Individual runners or groups of runners may join HSC's team. Corporations may sponsor their employees' participation, match their gifts, or sign on as an official corporate sponsor, with all the accompanying benefits.

Golf Prolongs Life, Good Health

Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people of the same sex, age and socioeconomic status, which correspond to a 5 year increase in life expe...