Nov 18th 2016
As the holidays approach and thoughts of Santa Claus dance in the heads of kids of all ages, three to 103, we think of the guy with the white beard and the big round belly that works better on him tha…
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Nov 18th 2016
November is National Healthy Skin Month, which is a reminder to all of us that maintaining good health also means spending part of the day going only skin deep with some of that care. Keeping our skin…
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Nov 10th 2016
You don't have to be a heavy smoker or a chewing-tobacco fanatic to be at risk for mouth cancer, otherwise known as oral cancer. While those are the two biggest risk factors for developing mouth/oral…
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Nov 9th 2016
If getting a sore throat feels like a true annoyance, it could be worse – the next step up the ladder of illnesses is strep throat, which, unfortunately, is usually as bad as it sounds. More com…
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Nov 8th 2016
If the thought of someday developing dementia has you concerned, now is as good a time as any to add blueberries to your grocery list—if you haven't already. Recent research has shown that regul…
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Nov 7th 2016
We typically perceive inflammation anywhere in our body as a bad thing, that it's time to pay a visit to the medicine cabinet to take measures to make the bad thing go away. But the great unknown abou…
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Nov 4th 2016
Sometimes a topic for humor, menopause is likely no laughing matter for anyone who has ever been through it. And don't be fooled by the pause portion of the word. The term menopause is derived fro…
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Nov 3rd 2016
Your furry friend might need your help. Your own daily life can be stressful. You might worry about new projects at work, how your kids are doing in school, or whether or not you left the stove on at…
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Nov 3rd 2016
Dogs can't fully be dogs unless they're in motion. They want to run, jump, play, and wag their tails – it's instinct, and it's why we love them. But sometimes all this activity and the passage o…
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Nov 1st 2016
Naming and knowing about the organs inside our body can be a tough task for those of us who didn't major in pre-med or biology in college. Let's see . . . there's the heart, the abdomen, the liver, th…
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Oct 31st 2016
It's an expression we've heard many times before: Open mouth, insert foot. Unfortunately for some people, every time they open their mouth, it smells like a stinky foot has been there (with sock remov…
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Oct 28th 2016
Psoriasis is one of those fairly common but strange physical conditions most people have heard of but know very little about, other than it presents itself as flaky skin and is a major, irritating nui…
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