Injury Prevention

When most people think of SportsFest, they think of a variety of tournament-styled events unfolding at Cedar Beach and other nearby venues. And, the high school boys and girls basketball tournaments, which feature close to 100 teams between them, are...

Registration for the District 62 Challenger Division will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Grace Lutheran Church in Huntington Beach. The Challenger Division includes mentally or physically disabled children with special needs, ages 4 1/2-18...

DUNBLANE, Scotland (AP) — If there's anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it's Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain's gun laws. In March 1996, a 43-year-old man named Thomas Hamilton walked into a...

One week after 20-year-old Adam Lanza used guns to kill 20 first-graders and seven adults before shooting himself, two physicians published a Viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. asking what the medical and public health...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- City firefighters responded to 1,024 fires in 2012, compared to 951 in 2011.  That’s a nearly 8 percent increase.  However, those numbers don’t tell the whole story.  The number of residential fires fell from 205 in 2011 to...

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella conducts monthly Running Clinics at The Wellness Center at City Hospital. Cucuzzella, nationally ranked distance runner, local physician and founder and organizer of Freedom's Run and the new Two Rivers Heritage Half Marathon, will be...

The most troubling aspect of representing professional athletes is the carnage sports like football take on every joint in the human body. In the days when I represented half of the starting quarterbacks and many of the major stars in the NFL, every...

Gayle Anderson was live in Pomona for a new CHILD CAR SEAT SAFETY AND RECYCLING program. When should you RECYCLE rather than REUSE? When your child's safety is concerned. Thanks to the Child Safety Seat Recycling Project, organized by SafetyBeltSafe U.S....

As Halloween approaches, you might be more concerned about your child's costume than safety, but the season does bring up some important issues to keep in mind. Here are some Halloween fire safety tips from the Maryland State Fire Marshal: •   ...

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella will conduct monthly running clinics at The Wellness Center at City Hospital. The next clinic is Friday, Oct. 5.   Cucuzzella will teach proper form, injury prevention and improve performance. The clinics are geared to runners of...

The new Wegmans in Columbia has joined forces with Saint Agnes Hospital to present a free monthly health-related speaker series in the Wegmans Market Cafe. "Wellness at Wegmans," featuring physicians and other health care experts from the hospital,...

The Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland has formed a partnership with Towson Orthopaedic Associates and Towson Sports Medicine to provide injury prevention services and education to the girls who play sports in the IAAM. “We try to...