HEALTH
Healthworks Fitness gives back health and wellness to the Dorchester communityIt's Friday afternoon and children are lining up to enter Healthworks at Codman in Dorchester's Codman Square to watch demonstrations on the "sport wall" - a light-up, interactive wall that keeps score and has buttons to encourage movement for different games. The children also excitedly move to the beat of Xerdance, a wall-sized interactive game where agility skills are required to keep up with the music and dance steps. More » |
At BMC Center for Weight Management and Nutrition, health is a lifestyleHelping people get healthy is Stephanie Spaide's job. Sometimes, that means being the bearer of bad tidings. More » |
Prostate cancer: The scourge of menWhile approximately 186,000 American men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, nearly 90 percent of prostate cancers are detected before they spread beyond the gland. Widespread screening has helped the disease become highly curable, and after five years men who have undergone treatment remain cancer-free in many cases. More » |
