Health

Outdoor fitness is thriving at Cushman Park, Fairhaven, Massachusetts this summer! The South Coast community can keep fit and stay healthy with free exercise classes taught by two of the top fitness instructors in the area. Twenty free classes in all —Yoga in the Park with Kripalu Certified Yoga Instructor, …

Already eager to start consuming some fresh, seasonal, local produce? Maybe you’re excited for the local farm stands, or to visit the farmer’s markets? Have you ever considered purchasing a CSA?! If you love fresh local fruits and veggies, a CSA is a tremendously affordable and fun way to eat …

Southcoast Health’s Wound Care Center was recently presented with the Center of Distinction Award by Healogics, Inc., the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. Southcoast Health’s Wound Care Center also earned this recognition in 2015. Southcoast Health’s Wound Care Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, …

We are one month into the new year and some of us have either not attended to our resolutions or are off to a rocky start. If you are one of those that didn’t need to make a resolution because you were already engaged in a fitness lifestyle, power to …

Are you one to make New Year’s resolutions? Chances are that if so, there’s something on your list related to improving health, habits, and investing in your overall lifestyle. After the buzz of the holiday craze, it’s time to put the focus on you. If this sounds like something you …

Many of us go well beyond the 40 hours a week, and often we take our work home with us. Especially, in this day and age of digital “commuting” and cafe entrepreneurship. High blood pressure, risk of strokes and heart attacks, migraine headaches, insomnia, stress induced anger that could lead …

It wasn’t supposed to end this way. For the last several days, the country has been holding it’s breath expecting someone to tell us that actress Carrie Fisher was safe and out of danger. News of Fisher’s in flight cardiac arrest and heart attack didn’t seem real last Friday and …

The Southcoast Wellness Van upholds Southcoast Health’s mission to promote the optimal health and well-being of individuals in the communities it serves. Southcoast Health focuses its attention on increasing access to services and caring for the entire population through wellness initiatives and disease management that are designed to limit — …

SUPPORT GROUPS ONCOLOGY Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care offer the following support groups free of charge to cancer patients and their caregivers. The staff at Southcoast wants you to know that you do not have to do this alone. The following support groups will take place during the month of …

Proof that Whaling City CrossFit at 475 Church Street is doing something special is in the rave reviews, testimonials and images showing the dramatic transformations We are all aware of the importance of exercise when it comes to health and longevity. The information has been circulating for so long that …