Art-based approaches and alternative resources can offer innovative health care providers and eager patients creative opportunities to learn healthy practices and understand complex medical conditions. The Hepatitis B Program at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center harnesses the power of art to demystify the myths and illuminate the facts, while empowering patients with a […]
Are you thinking of traveling to East, Southeast, or Central Asia? These are exciting destinations for cultural explorations, historical appreciation, and world-class cuisine. However, be cautious when eating undercooked or raw fresh-water fish, as a high prevalence of cases of liver fluke infection have been found mainly in these global regions. As well, cases have […]
Has the term ‘Ayurveda’ crossed your radar lately? If it sounds familiar, it’s probably because it is popular within the health and wellness community. Ayurveda, also popularly known as Ayurvedic medicine, is a traditional healing practice developed in India; it literally means knowledge or science (veda) of life (ayu). This ancient holistic medical system, believed […]
With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching, many of you may be on a hunt for an easy, healthy, and super-tasty stuffing recipe to wow your family and friends at the table. Given all the rich and guilty ingredients, a traditional Thanksgiving meal, with all the trimmings, may not be too friendly to your liver. So, […]
Screening remains to be the best defense against detecting the hepatitis virus in its earliest stages, and potentially developing life-threatening complications, later down the line. Dubbed as the “silent killer,” hepatitis doesn’t exhibit obvious symptoms in many people, who may live, comfortably, with the virus for years and only discover their condition at its advanced, […]
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