Love your Heart! February is American Heart Month
The American Heart Association is recognizing its 57th consecutive American Heart Month by promoting a group of key measures called Life’s Essential 8 for better cardiovascular health and to lower…
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The Medical Center’s Full-Service Spine Care
The Medical Center’s Visiting Specialists program offers a wide range of specialized fields. To provide comprehensive care, it’s sometimes necessary for duplication of the same specialty. For example, dermatology has…
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Lecture Series: “Brain, Aging, Dementia and You”
By Gail Wheeler Please join us at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, at the Cultural Center Theatre, for a presentation by Neurologist Dr. Dylan Wint entitled “Brain, Aging, Dementia…
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Counting One Too Many Sheep?
by Gail Wheeler About 70 million adults suffer from sleep disorders. According to Cleveland Clinic there are approximately 80 different types of sleep disorders. Three of the top ones are:…
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You Can Achieve It With FitMed
By Gail Wheeler Trying to lose weight and maintain healthy habits is NOT a failure of willpower. People who struggle with weight have impaired metabolic pathways that cause a decrease…
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Lecture Series: Longevity and Healthy Aging
Please join us at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, for “Human Longevity & Healthy Aging,” a presentation by Baljash Cheema, M.D., Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist at Chicago’s Northwestern…
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Lifestyle Changes and Blood Pressure
There are several lifestyle changes that can help in lowering blood pressure and also be beneficial to other aspects of your physical and mental health well-being. “Normalizing blood pressure is…
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Seasonal Allergies, Blepharitis & Dry Eyes
Together, seasonal allergies, blepharitis and dryness can make for some very unhappy eyes. Blepharitis (pronounced blef-uh-RYE-tis) is a chronic condition that causes the eyelids to become swollen, irritated and sometimes…
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What is “Tech Neck?”
The human head weighs around 10-12 pounds, gracefully balanced on our cervical spine. A tremendous amount of strain is put on this region, especially looking at computers, mobile phones and…
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Flu and Measles Update
Measles has been mentioned frequently in the news media this season. There are 933 cases in the South Carolina measles outbreak, that state’s Department of Public Health reported on Feb.…
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