At Costen Floors, if you walk around the outside of the building three times, you’ve walked a mile. Employees are encouraged to put in those laps...

Wellness Sometimes we’re so concerned with simply getting through the holidays that we don’t take time to think about the little things that...

MEETINGS NAMI-CVA, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Weinstein JCC, 5403 Monument Ave. James M. Martinez Jr., director of the Office of Mental Health of the Virginia...

Richmond metropolitan health facilities are largely, if temporarily, out of H1N1 flu vaccine. “In the region, all the local health departments are...

CLASSES “Lift Your Chest” pump class by Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy’s Kappa Epsilon in honor of “Pinktober,“...

Starting Monday, metropolitan Richmond hospitals will restrict visiting to try to curb the spread of swine flu. In what they described as an unprecedented...

Glaucoma often not detected until severe Today and tomorrow, people can get free glaucoma screenings. (See Health Notes below.) According to the Glaucoma...

MEETING Richmond Chapter of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition, 6 p.m. Monday, Panera, 11703 W. Broad St. Details: Mary Burke, (804) 330-3340 or Mary...

CLASSES Yoga Anatomy for the Upper Body, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. today, Glenmore Yoga and Wellness Center, 10442 Ridgefield Parkway, to learn which postures...

Q:I was in the military in 1976 when we were required to get a swine-flu vaccine. But now I hear that there is a new swine-flu vaccine. If I was vaccinated...

A limited quantity of swine-flu vaccine has arrived at some local health departments and hospitals in Virginia. “We have received some at John Randolph...

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Q:Why aren’t people 65 and over on the priority list for swine-flu vaccine? TAMMIE SMITH It seems to me an aspect of the rationing that’s talked...

Children ages 10 to 17 appear to need just one dose of the new swine-flu vaccine, but younger children probably will need two, federal health officials...

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Unmarried childbearing and health-care costs Q:You recently wrote about health-care inequities. Why didn’t you include, for instance, that the reason...

Ukrop’s Super Markets Tuesday—Oxbridge Square, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Wednesday—Gayton Crossing, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Thursday—Harbour...

Fewer infants died in Richmond last year than the previous year, and city health officials credit a comprehensive effort involving multiple city agencies...

Infant-mortality rates per 1,000 live births, 2008; 2007   Richmond: 10.9; 12.4   Henrico: 10.3; 5.6   Chesterfield: 7.0; 6.4   Virginia:...