Category: health-fitness

PENSACOLA — Two Thanksgivings ago, Katie Mitchell developed a cough.
After her parents, Jamie and Steven Mitchell, took her to several doctor visits and to the emergency room, blood and bone marrow…

CRESTVIEW — Relay for Life of Crestview's Duke It Out team is having a ball — a Princess Ball, that is — for girls and their escorts, who may include their father, uncle, grandfather or brother.
Th…

FORT WALTON BEACH — Four Okaloosa County parks have potentially hazardous bathing water, according to the Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County's latest test results.
Advisories have been…

CRESTVIEW — North Okaloosa Medical Center can help area residents learn about, and enroll in, health insurance options on the Health Insurance Marketplace.
The marketplace offers access to affordab…

CRESTVIEW — The Florida Department of Health and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will offer the “Healthy, Fast, ‘Fresh From Florida’ Challenge” as part of the World Food C…

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Extension, along with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and the Florida Peanut Producers Association, are collecting peanut butter.…

CRESTVIEW — A family faces an unforeseen move to Houston, and increasing expenses, following their 5-month-old daughter’s diagnosis with a rare medical condition.
CLOVES syndrome — short for Congen…

CRESTVIEW — Former state Sen. Durell Peaden's influence will continue to affect pharmacology students at the downtown building that now bears his name, speakers said Monday afternoon.
Florida A&M U…

NICEVILLE —Yoga Junkie Studio is expanding to central Crestview with a grand opening celebration 2-4 p.m. on Dec. 5. 
The 2,100-square-foot facility —located at 2225 S. Ferdon Blvd. — will feature …

FORT WALTON BEACH —The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County urges the public to get their annual flu shot before Halloween.
Here are seven Crestview locations, among others, that have it…