Health & Wellness

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced aid has been made available for Arizona as requested by Gov. Doug Ducey. The funds are to supplement state,...

  Maricopa Unified School District will begin school July 30. The school year will begin online with two different virtual academies. A 6-12 Virtual Academy, which...

The innovation behind Morpheus8 stands out in the evolving landscape of aesthetic treatments, offering a minimally invasive solution that combines microneedling with radiofrequency (RF)...

By Bernadette Russoniello Once a Ram, always a Ram. Leandra Fleming didn't expect what 2020 would bring. While family and friends argue on social media about...

  By Fran Lyons During unparalleled and uncertain times of the coronavirus pandemic, Maricopa businesses, like the community at large, adopted the phrase, “We are all...

Some 41% of adults age 65 and older report they are in good or excellent health, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...

Hormones. They're like little air traffic controllers directing everything in the body — digestion, brain function, immune system, mood, libido and more. As men...

  By Fran Lyons Wendy Webb, executive director of F.O.R. Maricopa food bank, hoped to get a portion of the financial aid for food banks that...

TRUE ABA opened its doors in Gig Harbor, WA, in 2017, providing home-, community-and school-based Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) treatment for children and adults...

Unwanted pigmentation can often affect the clarity and tone of your skin. One of the most effective ways to address pigmentation is the IPL...

A second COVID-19 testing blitz will be held in Maricopa. That event is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 1, according to Kristina Donnay, the medical director...

  Technically, Maricopa Unified School District is still on spring break. While many public schools in the state were closed by state mandate to mitigate the...

Maricopa City leaders were on hand at Exceptional Health, the City's first hospital on Friday for the facility's ribbon-cutting ceremony. Here are a few...

Pinal County Public Health Services District (PCPHSD) has continued to detect West Nile Virus (WNV) positive mosquitoes in the county during routine seasonal mosquito...

The Medicaid agency in Arizona will help sustain health care providers during the coronavirus pandemic by advancing more than $41 million in scheduled payments. The...

By C. Jon Beecroft, M.D. Trust is a hard thing to earn these days. This last year has taught us about trust, and lack of...

Happy New Year everyone! I’m hoping that many of you spent some quality time with family and friends. There are many components to aging well....

By Maricopa Foot and Ankle What are some of the most common conditions you treat? Some of the most common conditions treated are heel pain, ingrown...

More than 34 million Americans have diabetes and one in five don’t know they have it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

Twenty-one Central Arizona College students were recognized as graduates of the 63rd Nursing Division for completing the college’s nursing program this fall. The pinning ceremony,...

Maricopa has its first hospital. Exceptional Community Hospital-Maricopa opened its doors today, bringing a local hospital to the city for the first time. Exceptional received its...

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and Maricopa County Department of Public Health (MCDPH) have confirmed the first death due to COVID-19 in...

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued an advisory Tuesday to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine distribution across the state and move doses to where they can be...

Domestic violence (aka intimate partner violence, dating abuse or relationship abuse) is defined as a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR This is an open letter to the people of Maricopa who knew Brian Simmons or who followed his story. I am Ralph...

Today’s news reports have been less than encouraging for exiting a globally traumatic event, such as the COVID crisis, to cope with.  While feelings...

The last few years have been challenging, to say the least. Politics, pandemics, inflation and so many other things — situations most of us...

Nature delivers infrared in sunlight. The sun emits a wide range of light, most of which is invisible. “Infrared” is the invisible light spectrum...

The day Gov. Doug Ducey announced the lifting of "Stay Home" orders by the end of the week, Pinal County Superior Court clarified the...

By Al Brandenburg Depression is not a normal part of aging, but can develop in later years— and it can be dangerous. The Centers for Disease...