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The pressure of being thinEvery day society is inundated with photos of thin, beautiful women. The covers of People, US Weekly and In Style Magazine consistently feature women whose average BMI is considered underweight by medical professionals. AND if a celebrity is considered of normal BMI, she is…

 Summertime and outdoor picnics seem to go hand-in-hand. Sunny days and beautiful weather are simply built for summer fun. But with the warm temperatures comes an extra ounce of precaution when it comes to keeping your food safe.Along with making healthy food choices for your outdoor barbeque, it’s …

  Fun in the sun can also bring lots of creepy-crawlies, including mosquitoes, ticks and spiders. How can you help keep your kids safe from these summer invaders and what symptoms should you look for in the event that your child has an insect bite?    Bugs and Their Bites Mosquitoes: Mosquitoes …

This low-sodium, low-sugar recipe is high in protein and packed with wholesome carbs and healthy fats. Bursting with citrus and seasonings, this dish from is ideal for the grilling season!Servings: 4Ingredients4 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts½ C White rice, uncooked1 C WaterPaprika, Lime and Cil…

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs recently added a cutting-edge tool that hospital officials say will benefit patients during their fight against cancer. In late July, the hospital’s imaging provider, Wisconsin-based Shared Medical Services, exchanged an analog PET/CT machine wi…

There’s lots to think about as parents prepare their kids for the start of the school year. School shopping, physicals and stricter bedtimes are still part of the routine. But the coronavirus pandemic is creating many unknowns. That’s why Dr. Matthew Gibson, a Methodist Physicians Clinic pediatric…

By the time the Spinning Babies conference concluded in the basement of Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, members of the hospital’s Birthing Center were itching to get back upstairs to implement newly learned practices. “They were just so excited,” Ashley Nihsen, director of Jennie Edmundson’s B…

Flip a coin 100 times and you can expect to get roughly 50 heads and 50 tails — the probability of each outcome is equal. And while the math doesn’t add up quite the same way with childbirth, a perfect split is exactly what happened last week at Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital when 18 deliveries…

Six months after Nebraska reported its first case of COVID-19, area researchers and health care providers still are learning about the novel coronavirus and the illness it causes. Meanwhile, the stakes for getting it right — from figuring out how to treat COVID-19 patients to determining how best t…

Linda Heidemann, a registered nurse at Dunklau Gardens at Methodist Fremont Health, is on the front lines of a battle against an unseen and potentially deadly enemy: COVID-19. During the last several weeks, nurses and other medical professionals in Fremont talked about the challenges they’ve faced …