Hectic modern schedules can provide a good excuse for us to skip the gym or eat junky fast food. That’s why workplaces that provide incentives for employees to work out and eat right — and make it easy for them…

Premera Blue Cross is working to improve patient safety, one brown paper bag at a time. Ten years ago, Premera launched it’s “polypharmacy” brown bag medication review program. The program is simple. Patients place all of the prescription and over-the-counter…

Dr. Larry Kuhl of Delta Dental Service joined us last week for a live chat on Live Well about keeping teeth healthy during Halloween season. He offered some great tips, including how to keep kids’ teeth cleaner after they eat…

Next Monday (Oct. 24) is national Food Day. Several local groups are celebrating the event by hosting events that promote healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food. Only one of those events will be hosted by local teenagers: the 100 Mile…

Women throughout the metro area will converge Wednesday for the seventh annual Go Red for Women luncheon. The event is from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Governor Hotel, 614 S.W. 11th Ave. in Portland. Tickets are $125…

Live Well advisory board member James Welch (of One Team Kids) came up with a great idea in our bimonthly meeting at The Columbian yesterday. To inspire each other to stay fit, James and some of his friends have started…

Camas High School football coach and area resident Dale Rule will walk for 24 consecutive hours to demonstrate the benefits of walking in combating childhood obesity and multiple sclerosis. Rule will hit the track at Camas High School at 6…