Plants are amazing for so many reasons. They provide shelter for our bodies and beauty for our eyes, keep us breathing as our lungs, and add flavor to our food. But what you might not know is the role they have always played in our health. Herbal medicine...
In 2019, The Association of American Women of Aberdeen (AWA) nominated ARC Hippotherapy for a FAWCO Foundation Development Grant (1) to purchase a hydraulic lifting platform that allows height adjustments to accommodate all sizes of ponies and horses and also allows wheelchair access. Members of the AWA have regularly volunteered at ARC as...
You are aging. Yes, YOU. The symphony of your life begins the moment you arrive on this earth. As the composer and conductor, you have the pen and the baton in your hand, with the ability to control how you age and direct your personal well-being. Every musical score...
A young black woman, the mother of five and wife of a tobacco farmer visited Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. It was 1951, and when a tumor was found and a biopsy taken she had no way of knowing that history would be changed forever.
The...
In November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) brought about the first-ever global commitment to eliminate a cancer: cervical cancer. You can read the full details in this article.
The thought that we can be free of cervical cancer in the foreseeable future is astounding. This gives me pause...
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...
