Health - The Harlem Times

Faith-Based Cardiovascular Education Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart

Business, Front Page, Harlem/Metro, Headlines, Health, Lifestyle, News / Harlem Times Staff

Before Reverend Dr. Rose Ellington Murray became a HeartSmarts Ambassador, she wasn’t practicing what she was preaching when it came to her health. As a health care professional, she knew the importance of taking care of her body, but it wasn’t until she began teaching the HeartSmarts curriculum to her congregation in Harlem that she

Faith-Based Cardiovascular Education Program Helps Congregations Become Heart Smart Read More »

6 Approaches to Crisis Management

Front Page, Headlines, Health, Lifestyle, News, Opinion / Harlem Times Staff

An immediate reaction to a crisis could be to tense up, freeze, loose your cool or do nothing. The Business Dictionary defines a crisis as a “Critical event or point of decision which, if not handled in an appropriate and timely manner (or if not handled at all), may turn into a disaster or catastrophe.”

6 Approaches to Crisis Management Read More »

Legalize Marijuana? Pros and Cons

Culture, Digital Edition, Front Page, Headlines, Health, Lifestyle, News, Opinion, Politics / Harlem Times Staff

Excessive use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana can be devastatingly harmful—physically, socially, spiritually. If any easy, painless way could be found to banish them from the face of the earth, mankind would be the better for it. Unfortunately, we don’t know how. And all past efforts to deal with the problem—from the most severe to

Legalize Marijuana? Pros and Cons Read More »

Ecotourism — Traveling Off the Beaten Track

Health, Lifestyle, News / Harlem Times Staff

At some point everybody needs a getaway. Work, finances, family; the daily stressors of life can get to be overwhelming, which is why many of us relish our paid time off as that sacred part of the year where we can recharge the battery and feel human again. However, as responsible adults, conscious of the

Ecotourism — Traveling Off the Beaten Track Read More »

The Biomedical Renaissance: Harlem as Innovation Factory

Harlem/Metro, Health / Harlem Times Staff

Harlem is associated with a history of innovation in the arts — serving as a home base and creative source for geniuses like W.E.B. Du Bois and Duke Ellington. Harlem Biospace (Hb), a new biotech incubator on 127th Street in West Harlem, is now making waves in the life sciences. Hb is a diverse community

The Biomedical Renaissance: Harlem as Innovation Factory Read More »

Terrie Williams: Mental Health Pioneer, Media Maven

Health / Harlem Times Staff

Terrie Williams does not walk on water. It only seems like she does. She has been called “the modern day Harriet Tubman.” She helps free people from their fear of talking about their undiagnosed depression and general mental health. “I was born to do this,” she says ever so humbly. “It is my personal mission

Terrie Williams: Mental Health Pioneer, Media Maven Read More »

5 Questions You Must Ask Your Dentist

Health / Harlem Times Staff

One of the most difficult decisions we make is managing our dental health. The truth of the matter is that each person is ultimately responsible for the final results of his or her dental care. You select your dentist and consent to treatment. As we have often heard, “Let the buyer beware.” You have more

5 Questions You Must Ask Your Dentist Read More »

DIY vs. Natural vs. Chemical

Health, Lifestyle, News / Harlem Times Staff

| Julie J. Wiggins | Many of you naturalistas are tied between whether you should use all natural (organic) products, not-so-natural (commercial/chemical) products, or just make you own (D.I.Y) products for your hair. Some of you rave about the benefits of organic products, but are these sometimes costly products really worth ditching their less expensive

DIY vs. Natural vs. Chemical Read More »

NEWLY INSURED AMERICA: AN INSURER’S PERSPECTIVE

Headlines, Health / Harlem Times Staff

“The Harlem Times interviews leading insurers on the most dramatic social program since the New Deal” Much ado is being made about the Federal government’s enrollment system debacle. The politicos are appalled, Congressional members, those in support of and opposed to the regulation, are in a feeding frenzy and the media has delivered “sentinel-like” commentary

NEWLY INSURED AMERICA: AN INSURER’S PERSPECTIVE Read More »

Answers to the Most Common Health Care Problems

Health / Harlem Times Staff

By Sana Hashmi What happened October 1? NY State of Health, the state’s health insurance marketplace, opened. You can learn all about it at www.nystateofhealth.ny.gov. Anyone who enrolls in a health plan between October 1 and December 15 will be eligible for health insurance starting January 1, 2014. The deadline for enrolling in the health

Answers to the Most Common Health Care Problems Read More »