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Alzheimer’s Awareness Month: Keeping Your Family Healthy
November is known as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. While you’re probably already familiar with the signs and symptoms of this disease, you may not know how to prevent it. The...
Best Practices
Recognizing & Coping With Nursing Burnout
Nurses are often compassionate by nature. After all, one of the reasons you may have chosen nursing is...
Health and Fitness
Wearable Devices: Useful Medical Insights Or Just More Data?
Do you track your steps with a FitBit or monitor your heart rate with an Apple Watch?
Wearable devices...
Health and Fitness
Should You Take Dietary Supplements?
When you reach for that bottle of vitamin C or fish oil pills, you might wonder how well...
Health and Fitness
Food For Thought: How The Brain Reacts To Food
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or...
How to Make Healthier Food Choices
We make dozens of decisions every day. When it comes to deciding what to eat and feed our families, it can be a lot...
Why Water Is Your Workout Buddy
If you think drinking water during a workout is just about keeping your mouth from drying out as you pant your way through each...
How Sleep Clears The Brain
A mouse study suggests that sleep helps restore the brain by flushing out toxins that build up during waking hours. The results point to...
Olive Oil: A Kitchen Staple
You may be surprised to learn that cooking with olive oil is a simple way to add heart-healthy "good" fats to your diet. In...
Most Americans’ Hearts Are Older Than Their Age
Your heart may be older than you are – and that's not good. According to a new CDC Vital Signs report, 3 out of...
Warning Contact Lens Wearers
Almost all of the 41 million estimated contact lens wearers in the United States may be engaging in at least one behavior known to...