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  1. Senior health expo scheduled Wednesday in Palm Desert

    Joslyn Center's annual Senior Health and Fitness Day Expo is scheduled from 9 a.m. to about 1 p.m. Wednesday.

    • 12:56 AM

  2. Gilda's Club Desert Cities to talk about pain issues

    Gilda's Club Desert Cities will offer “Talking About Cancer Related Pain,” an educational lecture at 6 p.m., Tuesday at the clubhouse.

    • May. 25, 2012
  3. The Rev. Benedict Reid does yoga at the Joslyn Center in Palm Desert. Jay Calderon/The Desert Sun

    Former monk keeps limber with yoga, shows others the benefits, too

    Maybe it's the yoga classes he takes twice a week. Or the meditation he practices religiously. It could be the years he spent as a Benedictine monk. Or the decades he's served as an Episcopalian priest.

    • May. 23, 2012

  4. Study: Scope exam cuts chance of developing colon cancer

    A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds.

    • May. 22, 2012

  5. Mizell Senior Center plans fitness day with classes

    In celebration of National Senior Health and Fitness Day, Mizell Senior Center is scheduled to offer a series of free services and classes on May 30.

    • May. 22, 2012

  6. Experts now recommend against PSA prostate cancer screening

    Doctors should no longer offer the PSA prostate cancer screening test to healthy men, because they're more likely to be harmed by the blood draw — and the chain of medical interventions that often follows — than be helped, according to government advisory panel's final report.

    • May. 21, 2012

  7. Palm Springs to participate in Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day

    The Jamie Oliver Foundation is launching its first-ever Food Revolution Day and the city of Palm Springs is participating, officials announced.

    • May. 17, 2012

  8. Volunteers find social services, fellowship for gay seniors

    They knew their work was cut out for them when they were asked to reach out to an invisible population. But a dozen volunteers supported by Jewish Family Services have accepted the challenge of trying to find gay senior citizens who have spent a lifetime in hiding and are now in desperate need of fellowship, medical care or other assistance.

    • May. 17, 2012

  9. Reaffirmation key to sobriety

    Question: How long does a person who has gone through a treatment center have to keep going to A.A? I feel that I have learned enough in the treatment center to get along without drinking. How about it?

    • May. 16, 2012

  10. Mizell Senior Center offers diet tips in lecture today

    Mizell Senior Center is slated to present the Desert Regional Medical Center Health Lecture “Diet and Lifestyle Tips to Reduce Your Cancer Risk” at 2 p.m. today.

    • May. 17, 2012

  11. Palm Springs Unified School District offers vaccines for whooping cough

    Palm Springs Unified School District is hosting four vaccination clinics starting today.

    • May. 17, 2012
  12. Enrique Jacome, MD, is congratulated by Martin Massiello the executive vice president and chief operating officer for Eisenhower Medical Center and other colleagues after performing the 400th operations using the da Vinci medical system, a robotic platform, at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Jacome is a board certified Gynecologist and is Eisenhower Medical Center 2011 physician of the year. Richard Lui The Desert Sun

    Eisenhower Medical Center celebrates robotic surgery milestone

    Dr. Enrique Jacome, a gynecologist, was the first surgeon to perform a robot-assisted hysterectomy in Riverside County.

    • May. 17, 2012

  13. Group to hold free skin cancer screening

    The Melanoma Awareness Project of the Desert is holding a free skin cancer screening clinic from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at West Dermatology, 72-785 Frank Sinatra Drive.

    • May. 16, 2012

  14. Second 1K walk for better health Sunday

    Walking Equals Long Life is holding its second walk for better health on Sunday at the Civic Center campus in La Quinta.

    • May. 16, 2012

  15. Zumba Gold Toning class coming Fridays

    The Cathedral Center is set to offer a new Zumba Gold Toning Class at 10:45 a.m. Fridays in the center's community room.

    • May. 16, 2012

  16. Free skin cancer screening clinic to be held in Rancho Mirage

    The Melanoma Awareness Project of the Desert is holding a free skin cancer screening clinic Thursday in Rancho Mirage.

    • May. 15, 2012

  17. AIDS fight enters new phase with HIV prevention pill

    CHICAGO — Condoms and other safe-sex practices have accomplished only so much. Now the 30-year battle against AIDS is on the verge of a radical new phase, with the government expected to endorse a once-a-day pill to prevent infection with the virus.

    • May. 12, 2012

  18. Get kids to dig gardening

    If you think it's hard getting kids to eat their vegetables, wait until you try recruiting them for garden work.

    • May. 11, 2012

  19. Many pass on skin-cancer warnings due to sunburn

    ATLANTA — The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through.

    • May. 11, 2012

  20. Free allergy screenings for kids

    Eisenhower Medical Center will offer free allergy screenings for children ages 4 to 18 from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Annenenberg Center for Health Sciences at the hospital, 39-000 Bob Hope Drive.

    • May. 10, 2012
  21. Bart Lewis and his wife, Doreen, look at art during the Emory museum project for people with Alzheimer's in Decatur, Ga. The project is modeled after Meet Me at MoMA, a program at New York's Museum of Modern Art that uses specially trained tour guides to help people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's to connect to art. Johnny Crawford/Atlanta Journal-Constitution (MCT)

    Alzheimer's patients respond to works of art by masters

    Emily Lu was a student at Harvard University when she saw people with Alzheimer's respond to works of art.

    • May. 3, 2012

  22. Med schools put disease in context

    Question: What kind of training do physicians get in medical school about alcoholism and drug addiction?

    • May. 1, 2012

  23. Doctor: Train the brain for health

    You know you should put down those potato chips with avocado cheese dip in favor of celery and carrot sticks, perhaps with some sour cream.

    • May. 2, 2012

  24. Bobby Vee reveals Alzheimer's

    Former teen idol Bobby Vee, who recorded a string of pop music hits in the 1960s, says he's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

    • May. 2, 2012
  25. Recruits in the Fitness Improvement Training (FIT) program prepare to run 1½ miles at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois. Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune (MCT)

    FIT helps Navy recruits get ship-shape

    Mason Hawks came to Naval Station Great Lakes in January for eight weeks of basic training. Thirteen weeks later, long after the rest of his division had graduated, he was still there, unable to get over a hurdle that stymies hundreds of recruits each year: He couldn't run 1½ miles fast enough.

    • May. 2, 2012
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