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Blogs: New Personal Challenges Help You Improve Your Life

BCBSTX Connect Team

Well onTarget® and Blue PointsSM are not available to all members. Check Blue Access for Members or ask your benefits administrator to see if you have these benefits. Well onTarget is designed to give you the support you need to make health...
- February 2, 2023
Blogs: Keep Your Child Healthy with Regular Well Child Visits

BCBSTX Connect Team

Parents take their children to the doctor when they’re sick. But regular well-child visits to a pediatrician or other health provider are just as important. Getting those checkups and recommended vaccinations help keep children healthy. What Is...
- February 2, 2023
Blogs: Not Sleeping Well? Done Right, Daily Activity Can Help

BCBSTX Connect Team

If sleeping doesn’t come easy, you’ve probably already tried a few things you thought might help. If they didn’t help, there may be another option — more activity each day. It may seem odd to say that more activity can help yo...
- February 1, 2023
Blogs: 5 Ways You Can Protect Your Colon Health

BCBSTX Connect Team

Staying healthy is easier if you take care of the basics. Go to the doctor. Get your preventive screening tests. Just doing those two things can help you live a longer and healthier life. Screenings catch health problems early, when they’re eas...
- February 1, 2023
Blogs: How Serious is Cirrhosis?

BCBSTX Connect Team

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) works closely with Loyola University School of Medicine to support research about cirrhosis of the liver. By doing so, we help doctors anticipate and treat the growing number of cases they now see. Data f...
- January 27, 2023
Blogs: Getting to Know Your Doctor

BCBSTX Connect Team

Developing a good relationship with your doctor is important. In fact, it’s one of the best things you do for your wellbeing. Working closely together, you’ll map out a plan to take care of any health issues or concerns you may. It might ...
- January 25, 2023
Blogs: Pregnancy with Gestational Diabetes

BCBSTX Connect Team

Angela R. had her first child when she was 21. Fifteen years later, she learned she was expecting her second at the age of 36. While her first pregnancy went smoothly, a complication rose its head 25 weeks into her second. Gestational diabetes. &ldqu...
- January 25, 2023
Blogs: How to Choose the Right Hospice Program

BCBSTX Connect Team

When medical care can no longer help a patient, it may be time to consider hospice care. Unlike medical care that is meant to cure illness, hospice care is designed to ease pain in terminally ill patients. By making patients comfortable with pai...
- January 24, 2023
Tu Salud: Bienestar social: ¿el ajetreo conduce a la soledad?

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A los estadounidenses les encanta estar ocupados. Por desgracia, hacer malabares para mantener el trabajo, la familia y las tareas domésticas implica que la persona promedio “trabaja” 60 horas o más por semana. No es de...
- January 20, 2023
Blogs: Pregnancy and Cancer: 5 Things You Need to Know

BCBSTX Connect Team

Baby showers, gift registries, nursery decorations, baby names and routine doctor’s visits. They are all things women expecting a child focus on. It’s a time of excitement and planning for the future. Cancer is the last thing a ...
- January 20, 2023