Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Dr. Jan Gurley, Everything you need to know about Swine Flu, Healthy Affairs, Swine flu, The Center of Disease Control, Twitter on April 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everything you need to know about Swine Flu
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
(picture courtesy of Boston.com)
Public health emergencies and pandemic disease outbreaks tend to create media frenzies. Reports of swine flu are the latest examples dominating headlines everywhere. There’s no need to barricade yourself in a sterile environment, or walk around campus with a mask on, [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Food and Drug Administration, Laura DeJoseph, The Added Benefits of the Pill, The Morning After on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Added Benefits of the Pill
by Laura DeJoseph, beat blogger
Ever since the 1960’s when the birth control pill was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration, women have been protecting themselves from unwanted pregnancy. However one third of women stop taking birth control within the first year of going on it. This is often [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Kiss and Tell, Taylor Engler, The Notebook, Waiting my Turn on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Waiting My Turn
By Taylor Engler
After a nervous day during which I couldn’t eat and a 30 minute car ride that should’ve been 15 (had I not been shaking so badly I got lost), I picked up my lost-love from the airport. We were giving things a second chance – trying to see if we could [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Healthy Affairs, This week in health policy on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week in health policy…
By Catherine Basham, beat blogger
Several stories caught the attention of health-policy gurus this week.
FDA Ad Crackdown. Last month, the FDA sent letters to 14 pharmaceutical companies that warned ads for prescription drugs on Google could mislead patients because they don’t contain information about the risks the drugs pose to patients. The FDA [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Natalie Johnson, Swimming, Weekly Workout on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Swimming
by Natalie Johnson, beat blogger
Swimming is a great way to complete a high quality workout with little damage to muscles. It is also a great cross-training workout to change up your usual gym routine. Make some time this week to get over to the Women’s Building on campus, or any pool and try out one [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Kristen Putch, Preventing Negative Thoughts on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preventing Negative Thoughts
By Kristen Putch, beat blogger
(picture courtesy of myspace.com)
With finals just around the corner, and for many, graduation, it’s not uncommon to find some pretty pessimistic people around campus. Be it complaining about upcoming final projects or the lack of a job, sometimes that negativity can be contagious.
But you don’t have [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Kiss and Tell, Taylor Engler, Wish You Were Here on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wish You Were Here
By Taylor Engler, beat blogger
(picture courtesy of corois.com)
It’s formal season in the [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Catherine Basham, Healthy Affairs, Hello Health, Tweet Me a Diagnosis on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tweet me a Diagnosis
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
Everywhere you look, news about blogs, Twitter, and Facebook invades headlines. Americans seem to have an insatiable appetite for social media, and with Facebook doubling its users in the last year, and Twitter experiencing 700 percent in the same time frame, the trend shows no sign of waining. [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged HIV, HIV Testing, HIV/AIDS, SEX S.Y.M.B.A.L.S, Shavon S. Greene, Tasha Brown, Timeka Williams on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DO YOU KNOW YOUR HIV STATUS?
Student organization Sex S.Y.M.B.A.L.S. is hosting FREE HIV TESTING tomorrow, Monday, April 13th from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m in Schine Student Center. Yu can just stop by their table in the Schine atrium. They will have three certified counselors to answer any of your questions. They are taking walk-ins but if [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Natalie Johnson, Pull-up, pull-ups, Weekly Workout on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pull-ups
by Natalie Johnson, beat blogger
Pull-ups are a great way to utilize your own body weight
during a workout. Below, are steps
that will show you the proper way to complete a pull-up, and illustrate a few
different exercises to try with them.
Basic Pull Up Exercise
Grab
the bar (you may have to jump to do [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Marvelyn Brown, Shavon S. Greene, Sherly Lee Ralph, Terrance Dean on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Student organizations Black Communications Society and Sex S.Y.M.B.A.L.S. want you to come out to and engage in conversation with MARVELYN BROWN and TERRANCE DEAN about AIDS in America on April 10th, THIS FRIDAY from 5:00-7 p.m.
MARVELYN BROWN is an Emmy award winning HIV consultant and Youth spokesperson and author of “The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Kiss and Tell, Taylor Engler, Twice Upon a Time on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Twice Upon a Time
by Taylor Engler, beat blogger
I recently broke up with my boyfriend and became single again for the first time in about nine months. However, the day after my new freedom began, I received a phone call from an even older ex-boyfriend who I’ve kept in contact with over the years.
“I think we [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Catherine Basham, Healthy Affair, Mental Health Parity Act, Unhinged: Mental Health Outreach in the Wake of Tragedy on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Unhinged: Mental Health Outreach in the Wake of Tragedy
by Catherine Basham, beat blogger
(picture courtesy of OntarioMD groups Web site)
When Congress passed its first Wall Street bailout bill in October, the product of a decades-long fight for better mental health care in the United States was tucked quietly into the legislation. The Mental Health Parity Act [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged abdominal bracing, Core strength, exercise, lateral bridge, Natalie Johnson, prone bridge on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Core Strength
by Natalie Johnson, beat blogger
Core strength is extremely important to prevent injuries to all parts of the body, especially the back. Your core muscles are also vital to your posture, spinal alignment, support, balance, and the rest of your movements. Here are a few exercises to try that will help your stability as well as tighten [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged HIV, HPV, Laura DeJoseph, STD, The Morning After on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Circumcision May Help Prevent STDs
By Laura DeJoseph, beat blogger
This week’s New England Journal of Medicine says a recent study has determined that men who are circumcised are less likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases. Circumcision reportedly decreases men’s likelihood of contracting the STD’s herpes, HIV and HPV. According to MSNBC, circumcision reduced the risk of [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Interruption, Kristen Putch, Prevening Cravings on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preventing Cravings
by Kristen Putch, beat blogger
It’s a Thursday evening, and you are sitting on your couch, flipping through the channels only to find that there is nothing good on TV. You’ve done all your work, you’ve read every magazine in your apartment and your roommate is gone. You’re bored. So, you head to the fridge, and [...]
Posted in Blog, tagged Kiss and Tell, Talking Dirty, Taylor Engler on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Talking Dirty
by Taylor Engler, beat blogger
The other day, some of my friends and I got into some dirty talk … airing our dirty laundry about all sexual chatter – from us in bed, to guys in bed, to phone sex in long-distance relationships.
It seemed like a pretty controversial issue, some girls have a strict clean-mouth [...]
