Category: health-fitness

NAVARRE — October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce along with Pink Pirates of Navarre hope to spread awareness, celebrate survivors and remember those …

A year ago, a study about U.S. hospitals marking up prices by 1,000 percent generated headlines and outrage around the country.

Twenty of those priciest hospitals are in Florida, and researchers a…

MILTON — Cooler weather and shorter days mark the transition from summer to fall — and they’re signs that flu season is here.
This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention only recommen…

CRESTVIEW — Dozer the Therapy Dog's life will be a little less active now.
Oct. 13 marked Dozer's last session as a greeter at the Walgreens in Crestview.
"It started as a one-time event to kick …

FORT WALTON BEACH — Here are the Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County’s water quality test results for local parks.
No Okaloosa County parks have potentially hazardous bathing water, the…

CRESTVIEW — After being forced to suspend operations throughout parts of its service area due to Hurricane Matthew, OneBlood, the local blood center, has resumed operations and urges residents to don…

Screwworms infecting wild deer in the Florida Keys have captured headlines, and experts with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and UF's College of Veterinary Medic…

CRESTVIEW — Board-certified Pediatrician Rebecca Susong has joined Sacred Heart Medical Group’s regional network of physicians as part of the Sacred Heart’s Pediatrics at Crestview office.
Susong g…

CRESTVIEW — Fathers, brothers, uncles and grandfathers may attend a ball fit for a princess while supporting a cause.
A princess-friendly dinner for girls 13 and younger is set 6-9 p.m. Oct. 15 at …

CRESTVIEW — The Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University College of Pharmacy is hosting a free community health fair.

It includes free blood pressure, cholesterol, HIV, glucose and body mass i…