Category: health-fitness

NICEVILLE — Dr. Dean Jacks will present information on hidden food dangers in a free seminar.
Topics include:
●learn how food manufacturers are tricking us
●find out if your food is a chemistry…

ORLANDO — OneBlood stands ready to face the Zika virus if and when the mosquito-borne disease emerges in Florida or the surrounding Southeast states it serves.
OneBlood anticipates the Food and Dru…

PENSACOLA — West Florida Healthcare will offer a free seminar, “Solutions for Varicose Veins,” 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12 at the West Florida Medical Group office, 1190 E. 9 Mile Road, Pensacol…

FORT WALTON BEACH — The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County is observing National Public Health Week, April 4-10. Americans are living 20 years longer than their grandparents’ generation,…

CRESTVIEW — Bridgeway Center Inc.’s Crestview and Fort Walton Beach offices now have two buses for transporting adults who need it. 
Okaloosa County commissioners donated the decommissioned buses a…

CRESTVIEW — North Okaloosa Medical Center is among the first in the United States, and one of four Florida hospitals, to offer a new treatment that relieves peripheral artery disease patients’ pain. …

FORT WALTON BEACH — The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County has announced water quality test results for local parks. 
Three Okaloosa parks have potentially hazardous bathing water, the…

GAINESVILLE — A University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher will return to Brazil to study the ability of two mosquito species to transmit the Zika virus.
The yello…

NICEVILLE — A seminar on healthy lifestyles for women is 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 22 at the Niceville Community Center.
Cost is $30 ($25 before April 8) per person for registration, which includes…

PENSACOLA — Sacred Heart Health System is now providing care through the Veterans Choice Program, giving veterans the choice to receive care at Sacred Heart locations throughout the region.
As part…