Digging Out: 5 Ways to Prepare Your Health to Shovel Snow
Shoveling snow is strenuous exercise. Just the thought of moving hundreds of pounds of snow and slush is enough to make your legs prickle, to make your arms and shoulders burn, and to make your back tire. Shoveling snow is such strenuous exercise tha...
Service Beyond Oneself: MRC Volunteers Share Their 'Why'
The Martin Luther King (MLK) Day of Service is an opportunity to help "strengthen communities, bridge barriers, [and] create solutions to social problems" through volunteering. While there are many ways to strengthen your community, one way is to hel...
5 Practical Skills for the Holiday 'Host(ess) with the Mostest'
It's not easy playing the part of host or hostess with the "mostest" at the holidays. A lot of time, effort, and planning goes into making merry with family and friends. In all the excitement of getting the house and food ready for guests, honest mis...
Operation Shortbread Is Not Your 'Cookie Cutter' MCM Exercise
December 4 is National Cookie Day, which-from a public health perspective-is what makes the scratch-made story of Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services' Operation Shortbread a fitting one to tell this time of year. What do cookies ...
Partnerships Help Save Lives When Disaster Strikes
Public health emergencies occur every day across the United States. Tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, infectious disease outbreaks, terrorist attacks, and other emergencies have all occurred within the past few years and likely will happen ag...
3 Reasons Why Handwashing Should Matter to You
Most of us are familiar with the parental-like voice in the back of our minds that helps guide our decision-making-asking us questions like, "Have you called your grandmother lately?" For many that voice serves as a gentle, yet constant reminder to w...
These horrifying pollen clouds remind us it's allergy season
Pollen counts are increasing across the country in recent weeks forecasters at Pollen.com say, which means nearly 50 million Americans will suffer from some combination of a runny nose, watery, itchy eyes or sneezing as their allergy symptoms ramp up...
Deer can pass tuberculosis to humans, CDC says
Heads up, hunters: You can potentially contract tuberculosis from deer infected with the bacterial disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced.
A 77-year-old Michigan man was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2017 after...