GAINESVILLE — While consumers are aware of genetically modified crops and food, their knowledge level is limited and often at odds with the facts, according to a newly published study by a University…
Category: health-fitness
Red Cross sets Crestview blood donor event
CRESTVIEW — The American Red Cross urges blood and platelet donors to help ensure blood is available for patients during its annual summer awareness campaign, sponsored by Suburban Propane.
Crestv…
Okaloosa health department releases water quality results
FORT WALTON BEACH — The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County has announced water quality test results for local parks.
No Okaloosa County parks have potentially hazardous bathing water,…
OneBlood sets O Negative, O Positive donation drives
CRESTVIEW — OneBlood, a local blood center, has scheduled donation drives to meet urgent needs for O Negative and O Positive blood.
The supply of O Negative and O Positive has reached “extremely l…
Okaloosa health department releases water quality results
FORT WALTON BEACH — The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County has announced water quality test results for local parks.
No Okaloosa County parks have potentially hazardous bathing water, …
Northwest Florida hospitals plan May 25 Niceville health fair
NICEVILLE — Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital are planning their fifth annual Community Health & Fitness Fair.
The fair is 9 a.m. to noon May 25 at the Niceville Community C…
Baker mobile dental clinic treats 100+ residents
BAKER — Nathan Merritt saw the dentist Tuesday morning. Several years after he lost a front tooth in an accident, the opportunity to fix the damage at last came up.
The Florida Baptist Convention’s…
Low-cost rabies vaccination clinic is May 19 in Baker
BAKER — The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County and the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society are partnering to offer $5 rabies vaccinations.
The clinic — set for 1-4 p.m. May 19 — is at the…
The high cost of addiction: Opioid epidemic fueling hospitalizations, healthcare costs
Every day, headlines detail the casualties of the nation’s surge in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse: The funerals, the broken families and the patients cycling in and out of treatment. Now, …
As birth rates fall, teens get less sex education
Teenage girls are catching up to teenage boys in one way that does no one any good: Lack of sex education, according to a recent report.
The proportion of teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 1…