The Health Team asked you what you do to “Use It or Lose It.”

HERE’S WHAT YOU SAID

 “We all know that moving more is a great notion in health and fitness, and often that means taking the stairs. This is me on the 365-step staircase in our town, Pollensa, in Spain, getting my steps in. It also...

In this final part of the Travel Readiness series, we will concentrate on first aid kits and the management of chronic medication.  

A few general thoughts:

• The contents of a travel kit ideally need to be tailored to the need, age and destination of the traveller. 
• You should always have one or more kits with bandages, etc. with you: one...

In this second of a three-blog series on travel readiness, we are going to look at the importance of travel vaccination.  

Vaccinations can be classed as follows:

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

(This is part 1 in a three-blog series on travel readiness. Part two will focus on the importance of travel vaccination and part three on first aid kits and the management of medicaton, including chronic medication.)

Traveling is slowly opening up and we...

The Education Team is pleased to announce The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré as the sixth annual Summer Global Book Read, as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. From the book jacket (Penguin Random House):

The remarkable, inspiring story of a teenage girl [Adunni] growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education...

By Linda Harvan, FAUSA

Our immune system is a complex network of tissues, cells and organs working to prevent and limit illness and infections. The two main parts of the immune system work together – the innate immune system, with which you are born, and the adaptive immune system, which you develop. 

The innate immune system is the body’s first...