Wellness Wednesday

Many confuse cardiac arrest and heart attacks as the same thing. On Wellness Wednesday we’ll learn all we need to know about cardiac arrest and what it means for those at high risk.

A five-part series titled “From Birth to Death” by the Associated Press explains how Black Americans disproportionately suffer from things like asthma, high-blood pressure and Alzheimer’s through every stage of life.

For people experiencing depression, the cause of their melancholy may be coming from an unlikely source - inflammation.

Collective grief is an all too familiar concept. With an ongoing pandemic, frequent instances of gun-violence, and plenty of economic instability, there are a number of stressors on our emotional well-being. Today on Wellness Wednesday, we’ll discuss what collective grief really means and how to go about healing.

Climate change is hard on everyone and is just another issue we must be concerned about. On this week's Wellness Wednesday, we’ll look at how children are coping with the anxiety caused by climate change.

Today on Wellness Wednesday we discuss drug expiration dates, the latest on COVID variants and vaccines, and how air quality impacts our lives.

On this Wellness Wednesday, we look at the relationship between the changing climate and our health. We also discuss how the mental health of fathers can lead to conflict within their relationships, and how keeping secrets impacts our health.

Today on Wellness Wednesday we are taking a look at how beneficial health supplements truly are and the FDA's plans to ban sales of menthol-flavored cigarettes.

The phenomenon of forgetfulness may be connected to external stressors. We are learning about how this connection works, and what we can do to avoid such ‘brain fog’. We’re also talking about online health trends, namely those under the guise of ‘gut health’. We look at those trends and whether or not they have any standing.

Selfies are everywhere and that’s become a problem. The self-portrait photographs have led to nearly 400 deaths since 2008. We talk about why some call it a public health issue.