Month: January 2017

Go Red For Women!

Ravalli Family Medicine Hamilton, MT

Most women are accustomed to being screened for breast cancer with mammography and cervical cancer with pap smear testing.  But, many women forget that they are at risk of diseases that have nothing to do with their gender, such as heart disease.

Healthy Drinking Guidelines

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. People set up the new exercise equipment they got for Christmas or dust off their running shoes and get back to the gym.  Diets come and go while we try to find the easy solution to weight loss.  This time of year, it is helpful to look not just at exercise and food, but also at alcohol consumption. 

Informational Health Websites

Here at Ravalli Family Medicine, we encourage our patients to become educated about their health.  That starts with signing up for internet-based access to your medical records.  All patients with an email address can sign up for this service.

The internet is also full of resources to assist in becoming and staying healthy.  A few of the websites that we encourage our patients to utilize include: