Health and Fitness
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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...
I’m So Tired: Treating Fatigue Naturally
We have all experienced fatigue, at one time or another. Some of us may experience it often. If you are perpetually tired, then I...
When Your Back Hurts
Is your back hurting? You’re in good company. In any 3-month period, about 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. has at least one...
On Sound Footing
During a 12-hour shift, a nurse will walk an average of 7,000 steps. That's almost 3 1/2 miles! Your feet are pretty small, considering...
Top 10 Tips to Healthy Habits This Summer!
Summer is in full swing and the warmer weather brings lots of new opportunities to improve your health: plenty of fresh, local produce and...
Soothing A Sore Throat
It's there when you wake up or sneaks up on you in the middle of the day --that annoying sore throat that is oh-so-common this time...
Feeling Stressed?
Everyone feels stressed from time to time. Stress can give you a rush of energy when it’s needed most—for instance, competing in sports, working...