Provena St. Mary's Hospital Spirit of Women

In this podcast, Acting Surgeon General Dr. Steven Galson discusses what you can do to protect yourself from H1N1 flu. (Created: 5/13/2009 by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and

Celebrating Mother’s Day is a time-honored tradition. Honoring Our Mothers celebrates the occasion by honoring mothers themselves, and giving their adult children a way to celebrate mom by connecting with her spirit and caring about her health. This Mother’s Day, Provena St. Mary's Hospital, Kankakee County's exclusive Spirit of Women hospital is focusing attention of the health of America’s moms by elevating awareness around the importance of primary prevention and diagnostic screenings for mom, and encouraging family history conversations to better understand inherited risk for her children.

Metabolic syndrome is not a disease itself but rather a relatively new term that has been used to describe a cluster of disorders that together provide an indicator of risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular conditions. Participants in this month's podcast include the Cardiology team of Dr. Robert Stauffer and Kyra Reichardt, CNP from the Heart and Vascular Institute at Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, Dr. Peter Sheehan who is the Chair of the American Diabetes Association's Cardiometabolic Risk Initiative, and Tricia Cwiklinski who is a Support Coordinator for WomenHeart and is currently living with both heart disease and type 2 diabetes along with metabolic syndrome.

“Stick to Your Resolutions” is geared to help women make successful behavioral changes by incorporating simple steps and fun reminders to keep and maintain their resolutions throughout all of 2009.