Healthy Living Blog

Exercise can have more than just a physical impact on your life. In fact, studies have shown that exercise can play a role in positively affecting your mental– and emotional–health.

Advocacy requires a lot of hard work, but it’s one of the greatest gifts you can give another person. Many caregivers help manage day-to-day care giving tasks, doing all kinds of things like fixing WiFi, shoveling snow, paying bills to cooking meals, doing laundry, cleaning up around the house. Other caregivers may also act as patient advocates and […]

As with most forms of cancerous disease, researchers and medical professionals are not sure as to what causes prostate cancer. On a basic level, a prostate cancer diagnosis could be from an acquired genetic change in the DNA of a normal prostate cell. Some genetic changes can be inherited, making family history an important thing […]

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the world (and Cass County). Cancer comes in as a close second. Given the growing number of people affected by cancer and heart disease, it may not be too surprising to find out the two are often interconnected.

Kidney stones are hard deposits of salt and minerals containing calcium or uric acid developed in your kidneys. From there, the stones travel to other parts of your urinary tract, causing what many patients describe as excruciating pain when they pass.