By: Kathy Hubbard. The cartoon shows a little girl watching a little boy peeing on a tree. The bubble over her head says, “That’s a clever gadget to bring to a picnic!” There are hundreds of jokes about urinating. But bladder health isn’t something to laugh at. So, despite the National Institute on Aging saying, “people rarely talk about bladder health,” today that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

By: Kathy Hubbard. There are some scary statistics about Halloween. Perhaps the scariest is that children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than on any other day of the year. The National Safety Council says that the “lack of visibility because of low lighting at night plays a factor in these incidents.”

By: Kathy Hubbard. In 2011 as part of a national campaign, staff members from the Sandpoint Police Department, Idaho Conservation League and Bonner General Health Foundation got together to develop and promote a program on how to safely dispose unwanted or expired drugs. With eyes on crime, health, and the environment, we established a Drug Take Back Program based on the Drug Enforcement Agency’s national program.