Aaron Jencks

Travis J. Weiszhaar, PA-C has been serving in the military for almost 19 years. Originally, he had joined to help pay off student loans, but after having served in Iraq for 18 months, he had a greater appreciation for military life and stayed in. He also has a special gratitude for the military because his father served for 34 years and his grandfather was in World War II. While Travis appreciates the military during the fourth of July, he thinks about soldiers who have passed that he has known as well as in his family’s history more so on Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. “The 4th of July, for me, is more of an appreciation of being in this country. The quality of life we enjoy and the freedoms we have been given are not to be taken for granted. Rexburg and Eastern Idaho is the greatest place on earth. We have...

MONDAY, June 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Shingles isn’t usually considered a kids’ disease, but children can get this painful condition. Fortunately, the chickenpox vaccine can also protect them against it, a new study finds. “The virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. It’s pretty uncommon in kids, but we wanted to see what would happen to the rates of shingles among children over time as more kids received the vaccine,” said study lead author Sheila Weinmann. She’s a senior investigator and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Ore. What the researchers found was that kids who were vaccinated against chickenpox had a 78% lower risk of developing shingles. And the rate of shingles dropped in the entire group — vaccinated and unvaccinated — by 72% between 2003 and 2014. Weinmann said the overall drop was large because so much less of the virus was circulating in the general...