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What You Should Know about Breast Cancer and Women’s Preventive Screenings

Preventive care could save your life. Screening for breast cancer can help detect the disease in its early stages, when it’s easier to treat. Are you following the screening guidelines?

Mindful Eating With Diabetes

Mindful eating or eating with intention and attention can be a helpful strategy to better manage your food intake and enhance your overall diabetes management. By paying attention to the...

AIDS AND HIV: Prevention and the...

During the 1980s, AIDS became a part of our vocabulary. With it, AIDS awareness became critical to our health education, as we learned that the disease existed and how it spread. While you...

8 Surprising Facts about Arthr...

Surely you’ve heard of it, but do you know exactly what arthritis is? Here are some interesting facts about arthritis that everyone needs to know. 1. There are over 100 types of...

Goodness Gracious! Increase your...

Write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Have you ever wondered how people who seem to have so little can seem so grateful? How do parents...

Supporting a Loved One with Ca...

“I have cancer.” The three words you never want to hear from a friend, family member or significant other. Finding out that a loved one is sick can be very scary and overwhelming...

Diabetes: If You Can’t Prevent...

Diabetes is a disease in which blood sugar level, or blood glucose, is too high. For a person with diabetes, the pancreas either doesn’t make enough insulin or the body is unable...

Telemedicine: The Modern-Day House...

Busy schedules (both yours and the doctor’s) may lead you to think you don’t have time to call or visit with your doctor. Good news! Seeing a doctor right away, when you’re...

Women, Plan for a Year of Well...

Is getting organized on your list of to-dos? What about healthy living? Why not combine the two? Get out the calendar or an app and schedule your health and wellness appointments. While...

Nothing but a Number: Healthy Aging...

Welcome to part 2 of my healthy aging article! As you may recall, I previously talked about how Americans are living longer , outlasting previous generations by a decade or more ! So if...