The Ohio State University has achieved silver-level status in the HealthLead™ Workplace reaccreditation, demonstrating Ohio State's increased engagement and initiation of positive changes to further instill a culture of health and well-being, the nonprofit US Healthiest announced today.

The Ohio State University is among the first schools to join the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with the private sector and PHA Honorary Chair Michelle Obama to make healthier choices easier, in a three-year commitment to make its campus healthier by adopting guidelines around food and nutrition, physical activity and programming. <

Initiatives will include curriculum development, community programming, research, teaching, and mentoring future health leaders

A College of Nursing faculty researcher from The Ohio State University is studying the effects of dietary fish oil supplementation on the healing of chronic venous leg ulcers (CVLUs).