Should You Exercise When You Are Sick? The winter cold and flu season may try to knock out your new year’s plans to get or stay healthy, but the good news is you can fight back.   Dr. Jayson Loeffert, a sports medicine physician at Penn State Health, said it is typically Read More

Flu Season Off to an Unusually Early Start As flu season enters 2020, the influenza B strain of the flu virus has arrived earlier than normal making this year’s season off to an “atypically” early start, said Dr. Richard Webby, a member of the Infectious Diseases Department at Read More

Start the Year with a Booze Break By January, many people are saturated with the parties, get-togethers and drinking that comes with the holidays. Odds are at some point in the 2019 holiday season you had a bit of a hangover from too much champagne, egg nog or cocktails. In comes Read More

7 Ways to Get Enough Sleep This Holiday Aunt Jessica is visiting from the west coast. Twelve gifts need wrapping. Three party invites just arrived by text message. And now little Timmy’s classmates expect fresh-baked cookies by 7 a.m.   Between shopping, entertaining, Read More

Avoid Illness While Traveling This Holiday A record-breaking 112.5 million people — more than a third of all Americans — are expected to travel this holiday season, including 102 million who will take their trips by car. Nothing ruins a long-awaited vacation faster Read More

8 Unconventional Exercises & Their Benefits Does the cold weather make you want to hibernate? As temperatures drop, lethargy is all too common. You don’t want to jog around the block when it is freezing and blustery outside, after all.   Fortunately, you can embrace Read More