This week was the National Handwashing Awareness Week! Remember to wash your hands to prevent the spread of dangerous microbes! “While we are taught as youngsters to wash our hands before dinner but it’s important to remember that germs don’t care what time of day it [...]

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it is a fact that Breast Cancer can happen to any of us. We want to help each other by spreading the word that prevention is the key for fighting this. By women helping women, we all become one, [...]

South Tabor Family Physicians is committed to helping keep our patients aware and educated. Helping to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia is more important than ever. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, a group of disorders that impairs mental functioning. This [...]

South Tabor Family Physicians wants to remind you to come in and get your flu shot soon. While everyone can benefit, there are special benefits with immunizing children and adolescents. According to the Journal of American Medicine: "Children and adolescents appear to play an important [...]

The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care's report identifies nine risk factors in early, mid- and late life that increase the likelihood of developing dementia. About 35 percent of dementia -- one in three cases -- is attributable to these risk factors, the report [...]

South Tabor Family Physicians wants to remind and encourage men to schedule a physical and receive preventive care services this June. Men are typically 70% less likely to go to the doctor than women. Seven out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from [...]

The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, [...]