Expert: Workplace wellness, prevention programs key to better health The Herald-Mail Maryland has approximately 6 million residents, half of whom spend nine hours or more at work each day, analyst Katie Jones of the Maryland Office of Chronic Disease Prevention told a group of health care and business professionals at the Robinwood ...
Healthy People Co. Issues a Voluntary Recall of Specific Lots of the Dietary ... eNews Park Forest Silver Spring, Maryland--(ENEWSPF)--February 4, 2012. Healthy People Co. announced yesterday that it is conducting a voluntary nationwide recall of the company's dietary supplements sold under the brand names Healthy People Co. specific to the ...
NJ Nurses Train to Coordinate Their Patients' Care Patch.com Courtesy University of Maryland School of Nursing A new crop of nurses is being trained as population care coordinators -- nurses who serve as part coach, part health advocate to improve coordinated follow-up and preventive and wellness care.
Maryland Board of Physicians gets new leader Baltimore Sun (blog) The Maryland Board of Physicians, which has faced scrutiny in recent months because of its backlog of cases and other problems, is getting a new leader, state health officials said Wednesday. Carole J. Catalfo will begin work as the executive director ...
Wind blows away best of the rest Delmarva Now Atlantic waters off the coast of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have been cleared for development of wind energy by the federal government, to the delight of environmentalists, as well as Republican and Democrat officials. Offshore Wind One Step Closer to Reality in the Mid-AtlanticNatural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Health Officials Fret as Hookah Grows in Popularity Southern Maryland Online By KARA ROSE COLLEGE PARK, Md. (February 3, 2012) -- University of Maryland student Louie Dane was 18 when he first smoked tobacco with a hookah at a friend's house. "There's nothing that's not great about it. You get to be with some friends having a ...