Health Matters

Imagine that your 11-year-old daughter or granddaughter, once a bubbly, active little girl, is crippled with chronic stomach pain. The family has tried everything—nothing is working. Where do you go?

When the Mayo Clinic Proceedings published an editorial titled “When Patients and their Families Feel Like Hostages to Healthcare” in August 2017, the title was not only provocative but also true.

By virtue of your connection to Healthnetwork Foundation, you have the opportunity to hear directly from our nation’s top medical leaders, scientists, and researchers.

Years of experience with patients suffering from chronic pain have revealed that the following strategies yield the greatest benefits for reducing pain and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle.

Over the last 15 years medical researchers have discovered that digestive health matters far more than we used to think.

Strokes kill more than 100,000 Americans annually and cause permanent disability in hundreds of thousands more.

2021 must see the return to being proactive about personal health. During the pandemic, everything from mammograms, blood pressure checkups, and physicals got canceled. Many never rescheduled.

Catholics believe that the human person possesses an integrally connected body and soul. Yet modern medicine almost exclusively focuses on the body and leaves “spiritual matters” to one’s personal inclinations. But science is revealing that what we do with our spiritual lives strongly impacts the health of our bodies, and health care professionals should pay heed.

At work, you’re responsible for many people. You’re in relationships, and you’re integrated in a community where your choices influence others. My challenge to you is this: be the CEO not only of your own health, but also of those in your sphere of influence.

It’s a beautiful day. All is well with your family and business. You’re out for a hike, and suddenly, through the trees, you see a large bear. And worse, he sees you.

At Healthnetwork Foundation, our mission is better medicine for all, which includes making referrals for major illness and facilitating philanthropy to advance medical research. Today, we share key components of a webinar on mental health issues in the time of COVID-19.

Childhood obesity has been increasing since the 1980s. According to the CDC, it now affects 13.7 million — nearly 20 percent — of American children. Obesity is defined as a body mass index above the 95th percentile for children of the same age and sex based on a 2000 CDC growth chart. That means nearly 20 percent of children today are as obese as the 5 percent most obese were 20 years ago.

Getting enough sleep is one of the easiest, cheapest, most natural things you can do to improve your health. And yet, 40 percent of U.S. adults cut their sleep short.

One of the greatest challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic is the array of conflicting, ever-changing, sometimes mutually exclusive medical opinions.

If you are over 60, chances are you know someone who has had a compression fracture in his spine. Almost 700,000 patients are diagnosed with these fractures each year.

Pregnancy loss is a painful ordeal that poses unique dilemmas for all involved: spouses, family, friends, even employers. Approximately 20 percent of pregnancies end in loss, typically before the 12th week.