Portage County is under a wind chill advisory until 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon as meteorologists predict some of the coldest wind chills this winter.A wind chill advisory is issued when forecasters predict...
Peace talks in Ukraine have led to a tentative truce Thursday between the government and opposition forces. Opposition leader Oleh Tyahnybok urged protestors to cease violent demonstrations across the...
Kent State University’s College of Podiatric Medicine is conducting a search for the new dean of the college following the death of Thomas V. Melillo, the former chief executive officer of the institution,...
Scientists have discovered a mutation in a metabolism gene that could make it more likely people with the mutation will be severely obese.Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a mutation...
Kent State Health Services has been reaccredited by a national health care organization.The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care accredits health care facilities that excel in patient safety...
Nursing students in Kent State’s College of Nursing’s Interprofessional Institute for Self-Care use yoga, aromatherapy and mindful breathing to help them take care of themselves.“Nurses are notorious...
Nursing students in Kent State’s College of Nursing’s Interprofessional Institute for Self-Care use yoga, aromatherapy and mindful breathing to help them take care of themselves.“Nurses are notorious...
Kent State College of Nursing named Barbara Broome as its new dean. Broome currently serves as associate dean, professor and chair of the Community-Mental Health Department at the University of South Alabama...
A top-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not think antibiotics are still effective at fighting bacterial infections.Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, associate director of the...
Nursing is moving away from the stereotype that nursing is a woman’s field.This year at all Kent State campuses, the college enrolled 2,342 undergraduate nursing majors. Males account for 403 of those...
Two Kent State psychology professors recently completed a study that found mindfulness-based stress reduction, or MBSR, which includes meditation practices, can reduce high blood pressure.The goal of mindfulness-based...
In Ohio, county health departments are absorbing many city agencies, a new study has found.Kent State’s Center for Public Policy and Health and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences recently...
