Well-Being

Feature stories on well-being and health from the Traverse City Record-Eagle, northern Michigan's daily newspaper.

Family affair: Pharmacist of the year Kathleen Brown started her pharmacy career as a soda jerk at her parents' Detroit-area drugstore. Now, she's the Michigan Community Pharmacist of the Year.....more>>

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  Senior Focus: Take care of your feet
  Everywhere we see reminders of how to keep our body in good physical shape, but even though our feet are the foundation for the rest of our body, they are often ignored. Not only do we regularly ignore our feet, it takes foot pain to get our attention.

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• Well-Being In Brief: 03/18/2010
  New night for Make a Memory workshop; Class offered for beginning runners; Parenting class for grandparents; NMC hosts Hospice teleconference; Area senior citizens invited to health fair; plus more.

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• Well-Being Newsmakers: 03/18/2010

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• Well-Being Calendar: 03/18/2010

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  Some diseases are on the decline
  Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.

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• Genetic counseling, testing available here
  Genetic counseling and testing is available in Traverse City through twice-monthly perinatology clinics at Munson Medical Center.

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  Adapted in TC: Good death part of good life
  Last fall, while we were alone, I told my very active, yet disabled, 90-year-old mother-in-law that her mothering of my husband Tom wasn't done. She gave me a bemused look. "He's an adult," she said. "What in the world does he still need me to do?" "Before you leave us ... he wants to really know you as the woman you are, aside from being his mom," I said.

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• Well-Being In Brief: 03/11/2010
  Gluten-free support group meets today; Benefit for victim of snowmobile accident; Medical assistants invited to meeting; Orientation set for weight-loss class; Have some fun and help Boots for Kids; and more

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• Well-Being Newsmakers: 03/11/2010
  The Elk Rapids Rotary Club recently donated $10,000 to the Munson Healthcare Regional Foundation to be used to purchase replacement cardiac rehabilitation equipment including a new recombent elliptical machine, upright elliptical machine and a multi-gym machine.

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