Feeling stressed? Tips for managing anxiety and staying healthy

connecting with loved ones can help you manage anxiety when you feel stressed

Remember awkward, sweaty handshakes before meetings? Watching a summer blockbuster in a crowded theater? Sending your kids off to school on a crowded bus? Shopping leisurely in grocery stores that were always fully stocked? Living during the “new normal” caused by COVID-19 is anything but normal. The current world-wide coronavirus crisis has ravaged the way […]

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Logansport Memorial Hospital announces revised visitor restrictions

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Cass County was approved to move into Stage 4 of Governor Holcomb’s Back-on-Track Indiana Plan on Friday, June 12. With this in mind, Logansport Memorial Hospital continues to evaluate the tight visitor restrictions put in place due to COVID-19 and make changes to better accommodate our patients and families, while still doing all that we […]

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Monitoring your body temperature: what’s normal?

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The experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continue to recommend self-monitoring for symptoms of COVID-19, such as difficulty breathing, fatigue, dry cough, and fever (or an elevated body temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit or more). As the “Stay at Home” orders are relaxing across the state of Indiana, more and more Hoosiers are […]

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How probiotics affect gut health (and how much you need in your diet)

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When it comes to bacteria you hear a lot about disease-causing germs, but some types—like probiotics—are thought to offer health benefits. Given all of the recent hype around probiotics, you might be wondering: “Should I be eating more of them?” Unfortunately, probiotics are still being studied so the answer isn’t black and white—yet. Read on […]

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