Long meetings are a necessary evil in most careers. Now that so many people are working from home, meetings have transitioned from in-person to online video calls. Hours and hours spent staring at your screen can strain your eyes. Every device emits blue light, which the sun also emits.

Dear Mayo Clinic: Our family loves to exercise outdoors. With summer coming, I want to make sure our family stays safe. What advice do you have for staying hydrated and avoiding issues while working out in the heat?

With gyms still closed throughout the state and people anxious to get moving outside, the businesses supporting outdoor activities have been booming.

As gyms across the state remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local prep sports coaches are forced to come up with creative ways to get their athletes in shape for the coming fall season.

A federal appeals court late Wednesday halted a lower judge's ruling and kept closed gyms and fitness centers that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered shut months ago to curb the coronavirus.

Children from Grand Haven, Ferrysburg and Spring Lake are finally returning to camps at the local YMCA after starting the summer stuck inside.

FRUITPORT — Looking to get outside, enjoy a bike ride or run, and support a great cause?

SEATTLE — As a certified nurse midwife, Emelia Udd is well acquainted with the complexities of labor and delivery. But as she faced the birth of her own second child last month in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, she found herself weighing a number of troubling new scenarios.

SOUTH HAVEN — A year ago, cancer survivor Melinda Gruber set out to run 50 5K runs by the time she turned 50.

CHICAGO — Jenny Mason-Frey had experienced panic attacks before – sudden waves of anxiety that set her heart racing, her head spinning and made her feel as if she was going to die.

The Ottawa County health department is providing opportunities to get outside and be active this winter.

When Angela Peters’ two young sons return from school, they bound into her Commerce Township home to check the kitchen counter for fruit, plus the pantry and a garage fridge for snacks.

Each month, local health care professionals answer your questions. This month, Dr. Stuart VanderHeide, of Hospice of North Ottawa Community, answers your questions about palliative care.

FERRYSBURG — Children screamed in delight as a mist of water sprayed out of an inflatable T-Rex sprinkler.

WEST OLIVE — The Pigeon Creek Lodge opened Friday for the first time this season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Twice as many high school students used nicotine-tinged electronic cigarettes this year compared with last year, an unprecedented jump in a large annual survey of teen smoking, drinking and drug use.

The Tri-Cities Family YMCA will launch its 2018 Annual Support Campaign with a kick-off event at the Mulligan’s Hollow Lodge in Grand Haven on Oct. 24.

Jill Vander Stel has always been on the move.

LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder has reappointed Grand Haven Area Public Schools teacher and coach Scott Przystas to the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health and Sports.

Ellis Raymond has spent almost half her 30 years involved in teaching swimming and water safety. It’s her passion, her mission. But when parents ask — which they do all the time — at what level their kids can be considered safe in the water, her answer is always the same:

When Laura Tuzio Ross told her plastic surgeon that she preferred not to reconstruct her breast after cancer surgery, he warned her she would regret it.

Pain and injury are an inevitable part of life, and being held back from the activities we love is very stressful. However, unraveling in simple terms pain and injury (note they are not the same) can make a tough situation easier to handle.

Concussion awareness and treatment has improved by leaps and bounds in the last decade. We have moved beyond the old thinking of, “It’s no big deal. I just got my bell rung,” to prioritizing early identification and effective management. Research does show changes to the brain from repeated …

There is nothing worse than seeing the look of disappointment and pain on a child's face. After an offseason filled with practicing and dreaming of the upcoming season, one wrong step, cut, or jump can lead to an injury and season of sitting on the bench. If possible, wouldn’t you take all t…

If you start talking with anyone about sports performance training, you will hear many different opinions. Even at the highest level of professional sports, philosophy and techniques differ. With so many opinions, how are you supposed to find out what is correct for your child? To help make …

In the first round of the 2012 NBA playoffs, super-star basketball player Derrick Rose tore his ACL. Rose had surgery a few weeks later, after completing rigorous pre-surgical rehabilitation to prepare his knee for the procedure. Ten months later, he was cleared by his surgeon to play, yet R…

Parents have a new opportunity to help their young children develop sports skills through a unique national program that is now available through the Northwest Ottawa Recreation Authority (NORA).

Jan White walked around Spotlight Dance Academy and smiled.

We’ve seen it before — an unfortunate situation where an athlete lands awkwardly and falls to the ground grabbing their knee. The first thought that typically occurs among those watching is, “uh-oh, I hope it isn’t an ACL injury!” What exactly is the ACL though? And why is it injured so frequently?

In seven weeks, a total of 404 Step it Up participants have walked 71,174 miles.

WEST OLIVE — Winter has hit, but that doesn't mean staying inside and avoiding the cold.

Last winter, Sandy Klaassen bought pink ties so the staff at Klaassen Family Funeral Home could wear them this month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Zoe McGregor said it was really cool to get out of school Thursday to enjoy some time at the beach.

Think you've opened your last gift this holiday season? Guess again.