• 5 Health Apps Your Mom Won’t Mind Being Downloaded to Her “Contraption”

  • 5 Tips For Getting Your Health House in Order

    It’s January and I am sure many of you have made a health based New Year’s resolution or two. Sally promises to not only get a gym membership but to actually go. Susie promises to schedule herself for the often-skipped gynecological annual exam. Sara is thinking about giving up her pot-of-coffee-a-day habit for lent (the year did just start).

  • Alzheimer's Disease and Women

    November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, an observance designed to promote awareness of a rapidly-growing health crisis.

  • Baltimore Area Nurses May Be Eating Themselves to Death and Taking Us with Them

    On January 30th, Olivia Katrandian of ABC News cited a University of Maryland study which concluded that up to fifty-five percent of surveyed nurses are overweight. The study, conducted in 2004 measured the BMI of 2103 nurses. Reasons given for the overwhelming numbers ranged from work schedules to job pressures.

  • Don't Forget! The Oncology Foundation of Maryland/DC is Hosting a Public Cancer Forum This Saturday, November 5!

    The Oncology Foundation of Maryland/DC is hosting a Public Cancer Forum on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 at Hayfields Country Club in Hunt Valley, MD. The event is open to the community at no charge, although donations are gratefully accepted.

  • Eating Right is Key to Heart Health

    February was National Heart Month and a good time to consider what you can do to protect your health and prevent cardiac disease. Heart-healthy habits include maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, managing your stress and not smoking. Adding these heart-smart eating habits can also help lower your risk of heart disease:

  • Elise's Tropical Smoothie - As featured at Breakfast Boost

    For those of you who came to Breakfast Boost this morning and tried Elise Rubenstein's smoothie and wanted to make it yourself, here is the recipe

  • Getting to the point of solving allergies

    Many women in Baltimore, be it women in business or otherwise suffer from allergies this time of year. Increasingly a number of them are beginning to turn to acupuncture and other alternative medicines for seasonal allergies such as those caused by ragweed, mold and dust. Allergy acupuncture can greatly reduce uncomfortable allergy symptoms while also improving immune function to reduce future occurrences of these symptoms.

  • Good News, Bad News on Likelihood of Becoming Disabled

    American’s are slightly less likely to suffer a long-term disability than they were a few decades ago, yet those who do will be disabled for a much longer period of time. A new study by Milliman for the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE) put the probability that a worker between the ages of 25 to 65 will suffer and accident or disability that keeps them out of the job for at least 90 days at 27% for men and 34% for women.

  • How Can I Have a Healthy BBQ This Summer?

    Holidays and social gatherings can be hard when you want to eat healthy and don’t want to feel lousy and bloated the week after too many barbeques, beer and potato salad. How can we enjoy these events and still stay on track with our goals?



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