It’s fruity, festive and perfect for summer sipping! Made with red wine and sweetened naturally with fresh fruit, this cocktail delivers a powerful punch of antioxidants.

On March 27, the Genesee Health Plan (GHP) honored healthcare heroes, leaders and advocates during the Health Care Hall of Fame Dinner and Awards Ceremony, held at the Flint Golf Club. The GHP Hall of Fame Awards is designed to showcase community efforts among GHP and local partners to help people get healthcare, from connecting patients to the right treatment and service to enrolling people in health coverage.

Lasers have played a critical role in treating the eye for over 50 years. Less than three years after lasers were first developed in 1960, they were described as a therapy for the eye. From that initial description, lasers have proven effective at treating numerous eye diseases including diabetes, macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion, sickle cell, retinopathy of prematurity, radiation retinopathy, retinal tears, glaucoma and eye cancers. Initial laser therapies involved hundreds to thousands of individually placed points on the eye that could result in scarring, pain and reduced vision. Recently, there have been significant advances in laser therapies that treat the eye with less side effects, less pain, less scarring, and more rapid results.

In early May, the Detroit River made national news when a 9-pound, 10-ounce Atlantic salmon was caught just south of the Ambassador Bridge. It was believed that the salmon traveled at least 85 miles before it was caught, and the closest Atlantic salmon fishery is 350 miles north in St. Marys River! This news sent waves of excitement throughout the fishing community and served as a great kick-off to the summer fishing season.

Everyday activities can produce plenty of stress. Today’s little hassles can pile up until there is a mountain of stress that can feel insurmountable.

The Flint water crisis proved to be an unprecedented tragedy for the Flint community on many levels. As a result, the dental profession was catapulted to the spotlight due to the need to address the oral health ramifications of the lack of fluoride in the drinking water, as well as the presence of excess lead in the water supply.

Atrial fibrillation affects more than seven million Americans, and that number is projected to increase dramatically over the next 25 years. AFib, as it is commonly called, is a rapid and irregular heart rhythm that arises from chaotic and irregular electrical activity in the upper chambers of the heart. Normal electrical activity is about 50-100 beats per minute; when the heart is in AFib, the irregular rates can be as high as 200 per minute, reports Karl Ilg, MD, Genesys Heart Institute Electrophysiologist.

This year, Hurley Medical Center’s marketing team won nine Addy awards from the American Advertising Federation (AAF), Greater Flint.

Executed in a timely manner, simple and cost effective preventive measures can create and maintain a healthy and pleasing smile!

It was a Monday morning and I was standing in the middle of the newsroom – a million things to do and a booked-up day – when I got one of “those” phone calls. It was hard for me to process what I was hearing.

This natural form of healing is performed by inserting tiny needles into the skin on specific points throughout the body. These points are located on the body along channels called meridians. Energy or Qi (“chee”) moves throughout the body via these meridians. For example, think of the meridians as a highway and energy as a traveler. If there is a blockage, i.e. an accident, the traveler cannot get to his or her destination. To “remove” the blockage, acupuncture needles are inserted along these meridian pathways to free-up the energy to nourish the body.