Healthy Living Blog

Sometimes, after getting a cancer-free diagnosis when you think your battle is over, you’re stuck dealing with a new challenge: painful swelling caused by lymphedema. Lymphedema is an uncomfortable condition that often affects patients when lymph nodes are removed or damaged during or after their cancer treatment. It most commonly affects arms and legs, but […]

Smoking is the leading cause of death and disease in the United States. Some people trying to kick their smoking habits have switched to vaping, but whether or not inhaling the aerosol “vapor” from e-cigarettes is any safer than cigarette smoke is still up for debate. Scientists are still trying to determine definitively if e-cigarettes […]

Driving a car, twisting a jar’s lid, writing a grocery list, scrolling through your phone, opening mail, washing your hands, eating a sandwich, holding a leash, folding laundry … you use your wrist hundreds of times throughout the day for all sorts of tasks, big and small. Most of us use our wrists so often […]

Just a few weeks ago, Logansport Memorial Hospital completed a planned transition to a new electronic health records system. This was a significant project and upgrade for the hospital that has been two years in the making. LMH did postpone the launch of this new system due to COVID-19, but did as much as possible […]

When is the last time you jogged up a staircase? Bounced to your feet after sitting on the floor? Dashed to the kitchen to pull something from the oven? Time makes us wiser, but it also takes a toll on our bodies. As you age, you might have started to notice that some things you […]