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Sports participation offers many physical and social benefits to students – but also exposes them to sports injury risks ranging from minor scrapes to serious head or spine injuries. More than 2.6 million children under the age of 19 receive emergency treatment each year for sports and recreation-related injuries. Free physician-led presentation that are most […]

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Clean Eating: Clean “Whole” Foods As a Carmel Valley San Diego community resident I know and understand the importance of optimal health, cleaning eating, and its effects on other aspects of our lives. As a health food expert, I believe that most of your nutrition should come from “whole” real food and supplements will only […]

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Jewish Family Service of San Diego Receives Nearly $1 Million to Expand Alzheimer’s Support Services

Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded more than $945,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, as part of the Administration on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative: Specialized Supportive Services (ADI-SSS) program. The funds allow JFS to fill existing service gaps and enhance staff and volunteers’ […]

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Many of us are going to have to face the challenges of taking care of our aging parents. I am currently at the age where my parents can take care of themselves 100%. But I know those years are limited as they approach their eighties. One of our many responsibilities as children is to make […]

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For the past several years, we pediatricians were thrilled to have the option of offering families the Flu Mist. The children loved us for it too!  A quick nose spray instead of a shot, which protected them from the influenza.  A nasty respiratory illness.  But now, the Flu Mist is gone. So what happened????  Luckily, […]

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Last month in Long Beach during one of my speaking tours, my topic was supposed to be “HOW TO WORK TOGETHER IN HARMONY” and interestingly; we ended up talking about the following subject for almost an entire day: “IS MULTI LEVEL MARKETING, aka MLM, A SCHEME?” Here is what I shared with my audience: We all […]

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Please be aware of the heat danger to pets and humans during this current heat wave. Since I knew we had a hot week ahead, I put a thermometer in my pickup truck this weekend here at your Rancho Coastal Humane Society. We’re about a mile from the beach in Encinitas. It leaped from 80 to […]

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Same Day Crowns at Our Dental Office

Technology has advanced so rapidly over the last decade, that we continue to be amazed, but at the same time, we inevidently fall behind. The speed in which new advancements like same day crowns are being implemented into today’s society happens so quickly that many of us don’t even realize they have occurred. Often we […]

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Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is proud to announce the co-chairs for the 2016 Miracle Makers Gala – Camp Miracles. The Miracle Makers Gala will be held on Saturday, June 11 at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego and proceeds will benefit autism services and research at Rady Children’s to help our efforts to improve quality of […]

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Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) has been awarded a $5,000 grant by the San Diego Professionals Against Cancer (SDPAC), a group of volunteers dedicated to raising money to support local nonprofits fighting against cancer, to support breast cancer patients in need. Through its partnership with Susan G. Komen, JFS’s breast cancer patient care […]

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When a man comes into my dental office, I always ask them “Do you have a toothache or did your wife make you this appointment?”  Inevitably the man responds “Yes” to one or both of the questions. Men are less likely than women to take care of their physical health, and according to studies and […]

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As a dance related business owner, I understand how beneficial social media can be to the arts in general and more specifically dance schools and studios.  A good social media campaign can provide direct access to colleagues, clients, and potential clients that might otherwise not be reached through conventional advertising and networking.  It also can […]

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