CHRISTUS St. John helps women focus on their own health, well-being through CHRISTUS LiveWell Network

Many women are so good at taking care of everyone else that they put their own health and well being at the bottom of their priority list.

Everything you need (but may not want) to know about this deadly yet avoidable disease.

In February 2012 a major study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirmed that colonoscopy screening can prevent cancer and save lives. In fact, it cut the death rate from the disease by half.

Prevention, lifestyle, and cardiology care are key to wellness.

The statistics are heartbreaking: Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one killer in the U.S., causing about 2200 deaths each day in this country. The direct and indirect costs of cardiovascular disease and stroke are skyrocketing—about $300 billion annually.

Dr. Ken Fujise shares secrets to longevity, plus latest advances in stem cell research.

Early to bed, early to rise—everyone knows that old adage. Not many of us take it to heart. Japanese-born Dr. Ken Fujise does. He spent his childhood in Yamagata with his grandfather, who was in the Japanese Navy.

Integrative medicine—combining the best of the East and West—is gaining popularity with patients and practitioners

“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.”

- Socrates, 4 B.C.

Mainstream medicine shines brightest during a crisis. Trauma doctors, quick-thinking nurses, and intensive care specialists come together in our hospitals to make miracles happen for patients facing the direst emergencies.

CrossFitness: Effective Results Across the Board

Like many optimistic individuals, your goals for 2013 may include “get fit.” Congratulations. Far more important than the goal of just losing weight, getting fit means an all-around improvement in everyday living.

Find AVEDA products, weight loss success, and healthy lifestyle choices at The Spa & Wellness Center’s new location

If taking better care of “you” is on your agenda this New Year, then get to know Dr. AJ Vazquez and the professionals at The Spa & Wellness Center at South Shore. They have expanded into a new space and introduced a line of nature-inspired skin and body care products to create a healing environment with affordable monthly specials.

Doctors of chiropractic learn to alleviate the roots of pain and health problems with non-invasive, drug-free treatment.

Using synthetic drugs and surgery to treat health conditions was known, just a few decades ago as, simply "medicine."

The Future of Health Care is Here:

Personalized Medicine

Pharmacogenomics shows great promise for predicting drug treatment responses in individual patients.

Learn more about this growing profession and its non-invasive treatment for pain and injury !

Believe it or not, chiropractic care has been around for well over 100 years. It’s not only “been around,” it’s grown at an extremely fast rate and is now the third largest healthcare profession (behind allopathic medicine and dentistry).

Treating Anxiety and Depression without Drugs!

Do people tell you that you worry too much? Do you constantly fear the worst? It may not seem the same...being chased by a hungry lion and worrying about losing your job or being infected with West Nile virus.

Local outdoor venues invite you to hike, bike, paddle, and stretch !

Huffing and puffing on the elliptical trainer, inhaling the body odor of the sweat-drenched guy on the machine next to me, struggling to attach my headphones to the tiny television screen—the monotonous routine of exercising at fitness clubs is enough to drive even hardcore fitness enthusiasts to burnout.

Rising chronic diseases, linked to our Western diet, can be healed with different food choices.

Experts disagree on the right diet for optimum health and vitality. Low carb? Low fat? High protein? Or, none of the above?

Learn how to stop bringing toxins into your home and to help your body detoxify.

Part III in Dr. Merritt’s Environmental Health and Medicine Series.

Most of us understand the obvious, that certain household products like pesticides, cleaning products and automotive supplies contain harmful ingredients that we should stay away from.

Lead is lurking in surprising, everyday places.

Third in a series about environmental health and natural wellness .

Of all environmental toxins, lead is probably the most widely recognized as hazardous to our health. Now, for the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.

Non-surgical and advanced arthroscopic procedures offer more options for shoulder repair and healing.

The shoulder is a very complex joint, says orthopedic surgeon M. Shaun Holt, M.D. “Shoulder tears and rotator cuff damage can be debilitating, but there is good news for patients who require surgery.

There is a better way to get a good night’s sleep with no pills

Almost everyone has trouble falling asleep, or staying asleep, from time to time. And often, practicing good sleep habits (see sidebar) is all it takes to beat a bout of insomnia and get back into your sleep groove.

Sherry Buffington helps you apply the physics of energy to improve your life and experiences.

Sherry Buffington is the originator of the highly acclaimed CORE Multidimensional Awareness Profile® and the CORE Personal Effectiveness Profile®.

Body, mind, spirit well being arises from our energy system.

Fundamentally, the word health comes from the root word "whole." What we call “feeling healthy” is a sense of wholeness within. If we are free of diseases medically, that is not health. If we feel like a complete human being in our body, mind and spirit, that is when we are really healthy.

Bury the hatchet for renewed health, joy, altruism, well being.

People can hurt us in a million ways. Cut off in traffic, betrayed by a sibling, badmouthed by a co-worker. Every day we are faced with situations that force us to choose whether to fume or forgive.