http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ en-us jhuang@pressherald.com 2008-06-25T11:00:18-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/029474.html Meet Janice Wood, obstetrics nurse. Thanks to her work, Miles Memorial Hospital became the first hospital in Maine to achieve "baby-friendly" status from the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Hospitals get this citation for a strong focus on breastfeeding and... 29474@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Health Care superstars 2008-06-25T11:00:18-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/029137.html This past weekend, I was among the millions of TV watchers who winced as Tiger played at the U.S. Open, nursing what we now know was a torn ligament in his left knee. Golf-related injuries, understandably, are on people's lips.... 29137@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Working out 2008-06-19T00:58:22-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/028977.html Ballard House, Portland's free-standing birthing center, is winding down its operations as founder and owner Sarah Levy prepares to turn the building over. "We're closing on the sale in mid-July," Levy says. "It's an alternative school that has bought the... 28977@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Birthing centers 2008-06-16T15:13:17-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/028568.html You might have seen a series of videos burning up the Internets. Each shows a group of friends setting their cell phones on a table, watching the kernels placed in the middle of them pop, and then yelping as if... 28568@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Cell phones 2008-06-10T14:58:21-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/028452.html It's supposed to hit the 80s this week, which makes it official. Maine's six (ok, eight) weeks of summer weather are here! With last night being a bit muggy, I broke out the fan for the first time this year,... 28452@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Weather 2008-06-09T05:27:38-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/027948.html You've heard about it before, but what is Restless Legs Syndrome anyway? Dr. Regis Langelier will speak about the condition which gives people a constant urge to move the limbs, disrupting sleep and other activities next Monday at the Kennebunk... 27948@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Restless Leg Syndrome 2008-05-28T12:22:31-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/027411.html Have you heard of Stephen Wiltshire? I hadn't until my mom sent me a YouTube video the other day that made my jaw drop. Wiltshire, a British artist who is autistic, has this amazing gift to draw highly detailed, panoramic... 27411@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Memory 2008-05-21T00:49:08-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/027328.html Over the weekend, some U.K. newspapers broke the news about a UCLA study coming out this summer that is bound to make headlines Stateside: it shows that pregnant women who use cell phones increase the likelihood that their children will... 27328@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Babies 2008-05-20T05:22:25-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/027241.html So maybe you know of a couple - maybe you're part of a couple - that seems to thrive off fighting, or at least do a lot of it, sometimes even getting physical. Some call it passion. Psychologists use the... 27241@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Relationships 2008-05-18T08:29:50-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026447.html It's no surprise that different pharmacies charge different prices for the same drugs. But who has the time to shop around? A Consumer Reports survey of drug prices at 163 pharmacies nationwide may be helpful. Researchers found that certain stores... 26447@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Medication 2008-05-15T11:35:40-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026918.html Kris Carr's claim to fame was showing up as a Bud girl in a Super Bowl commercial. That was before she was diagnosed with an incurable cancer at age 31, and decided that she was not going to let that... 26918@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Cancer 2008-05-13T11:31:15-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026903.html More than 56,000 people in Maine qualify for health insurance but don't know it. That's according to a group called Foundation for Health Coverage Education , whose mission is to get as many uninsured people covered as possible. They're rolling... 26903@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Insurance 2008-05-12T11:59:20-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026783.html Maybe the fantasy has crossed your mind before: Convince the bosses to give you a month or two off from work, climb into your car and take a cross-country ride, shout-singing the words to "Born to Run." Gino Nalli, who... 26783@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ On the Web 2008-05-09T18:15:57-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026563.html When's the last time you had a good belly-achin' laugh? The kind that makes you feel like you just worked out? Well, more folks in the health community are saying that "laughter is the best medicine." (Laugh track here, please.)... 26563@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Working out 2008-05-06T12:42:31-05:00 http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/026453.html You've probably heard of Narcotics Anonymous, or NA, which offers support groups to recovering drug addicts. Lesser known is the Nar-Anon family groups. They're for the friends and family of addicts whose lives are just as affected by drugs. Nar-Anon... 26453@http://www.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/huang/ Drug abuse 2008-05-05T18:28:19-05:00