Prenatal Care: Talking to Your Doctor

Preconception care can improve your chances of becoming pregnant, having a healthy pregnancy, and delivering a healthy baby. Here is a helpful checklist of the things you should discuss with your doctor if you are considering becoming pregnant: Family planning and choices for birth control. Taking 400 to 800 micrograms of folic acid every day... Read More

Pregnancy, Women's Health

May 1, 2014

Pregnancy Do’s and Don’ts

Do’s See your doctor regularly. Continue taking folic acid throughout your pregnancy. Eat a variety of healthy foods. When cooking, keep raw meats, poultry, and seafood from touching other foods or surfaces and cook raw meat thoroughly. Clean, handle, cook, and chill food properly to prevent foodborne illness. Wash produce before eating it. Wash cooking... Read More

Children's Health, Pregnancy, Women's Health

May 1, 2014

Planning for Pregnancy

Every parent wants to have a healthy baby. Planned pregnancy not only helps parents to be well-informed and well-prepared at every stage of pregnancy, it can also improve a woman’s ability to deliver a healthy baby. Preconception Preconception health means knowing how a woman’s health could affect her unborn child should she become pregnant. For... Read More

Pregnancy, Women's Health

May 1, 2014

Fourth Time’s the Charm

Dan and Renee’ Veasey have been married for fourteen years and have four children after recently welcoming baby Joah on February 17, 2014, at Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC). Their family also includes ten-year-old Alyssa, seven-year-old Iliana, and three-year-old Tovi. Iliana and Tovi were also born at DRMC under the previous nursery care model, where... Read More

Pregnancy

April 29, 2014

A Three-Day Escape

Spring is here and after the wild winter of 2014 you deserve a break! Leave the winter blues behind and escape your day-to-day routine with a relaxing long weekend to renew your spirit, recharge your body, and reconnect with loved ones. Grab the special people in your life and break away to Martinsville-Henry County, Virginia... Read More

Features

April 29, 2014

Take Control: Get Healthy

From Fitness Professional Dave Gluhareff of Train With Dave: The Problems I have with Diets! Fad diet plans can create an adverse effect on a person wishing to get in shape. Many times the person gains the original weight back, plus more, and never really gets healthier or stronger. In order to see through the... Read More

A Better You

April 29, 2014

Public Policy

He Said A couple of people asked me to run for Danville City Council. And someone asked me to run for the Danville School Board.I guess my question to you would be, “Why haven’t you ever suggested that I run for public office?” Since we have been together, I have shared with you all of... Read More

He Said She Said

April 29, 2014

Eye Spy

The NSA is tracking our every move. Google knows every detail about our life. Amazon knows our reading habits and Netflix knows our television watching habits. Apple can predict how well an album, movie, book, or app will sell before it’s launched by simply querying their database of customer buying habits. The banks know everything... Read More

Publisher's Letter

April 28, 2014

KARE Pharmacy

Since opening over thirty years ago, Kare Pharmacy has grown from a small retail pharmacy to Southside Virginia’s premier local source for compounded medications. Pharmacy compounding is the art and science of preparing personalized medications for patients. Compounded medications are “made from scratch” with individual ingredients mixed together in the exact strength and dosage form... Read More

Features

April 28, 2014

The Art and Science of Business Investing

Investing in shares of operating companies, those firms that create and/or market products or services, can be an ingenious avenue to leverage off of all kinds of other investments. You can also buy shares in an investment company, which is a firm that invests its money in the shares and bonds. The original funds are... Read More

The Money Club