Nine students from Columbia Union Conference academies recently received the Office of Education's annual Caring Heart Award. See the winners below.
Blue Mountain Academy: Victoria Emilaire
Highland View Academy: Alissa Tanguay
Pine Forge Academy: Mesha Lewis
Richmond Academy: Vivian Riamundo
Spencerville Adventist Academy: Franshesca Sequeira
Shenandoah Valley Acadeny: Samuel Alberto Renderos
Read and share these articles from the July-August Visitor :
Story by Adventist Healthcare staff
Five Liberian amputees, who play on an international disabled soccer team that has won three world championships, received prosthetic legs and expert rehabilitation care this spring thanks to Adventist HealthCare Physical Health & Rehabilitation (Adventist HealthCare PH&R).
Adventist HealthCare PH&R and one of its partners, Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP), donated new prosthetic legs and rehabilitative care to the five Liberian refugees, who have not had access to prosthetic legs or comprehensive treatment.
Story by Tim Allston
Loma Linda University’s (LLU) Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2), which includes 26,346 Seventh-day Adventist men, recently published updates about its findings on meat-eating’s link to prostate cancer, the second most common male cancer.
The research team found that men who adopt a vegan diet (no dairy or eggs) are a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.
Gary Fraser, MD, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at LLU and principal investigator of AHS-2, says they found that, “Vegan diets showed a statistically significant protective association with prostate cancer risk.”
Story by Tompaul Wheeler
For half a century, nowhere has embodied the phrase “so near, and yet so far” for Americans more than Cuba.
Cuba is only 93 miles from Key West, Fla., but for the average American, for decades it may as well have been on Mars. Home to 11 million people, the Caribbean island nation is the size of Virginia. Due to the travel and trade embargo imposed by the United States since the early 1960s, Cuba’s colorful and dynamic culture, and its turbulent political scene have been shut out from much of the world.