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Before and After Cataract Operations

Cataracts are not very fun to live with. As a person ages the lens of their eye becomes a little hardened and when it goes cloudy, eye sight is affected. It is one of the most common eye conditions in the over 55 age group. There is a high chance of ...

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Adult Education Courses for Retirees

Traditionally, we think of retirement as a well-deserved exit from the workforce to spend time traveling, reading and relaxing. However, many people today look for additional employment opportunities after retiring from work. In fact, AARP Internatio...

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Medical Home a Hot Topic at AHIP Institute

On Thursday at AHIP Institute I had the pleasure of presenting a medical home case study with my colleague Elaine Olzawski, senior director of health care management at BlueCross BlueShield of Oklahoma. We were incredibly impressed with the turnout (...

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Healing Through Stories

Healing Through Stories by: Vicki Rackner, MD Stories are powerful. How many times have you heard a child beg, Tell me a story. Scientists say we are wired to learn through stories. In fact, the first three polysyllabic words your child spoke ar...

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Smokers Put Pets at Risk

Smokers Put Pets at Risk by: Marilyn Pokorney Do you smoke? Need an incentive to quit? Do you have pets? Then that beloved pet just might be the incentive you need to stop. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have discovered that pet...

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How to Choose a Personal Trainer

How to Choose a Personal Trainer by: Phil Goglia In the fitness industry there is a joke that goes something like this: “The reason I decided not to become a personal trainer is that I had no table waiting experience and I didn’t want to bec...

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Diets and Slimming

Diets and Slimming by: Ric Wiley Its time to talk about diets. This but in America today there are many people who are overweight and, many of us need to think very seriously about a diet. I don’t like diets and I bet most of you don’t like ...

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Intractable Back Pain and Trigger Point Injections

Intractable Back Pain and Trigger Point Injections by: Karri Koivula Ever enigmatic back pain has been in the past largely blamed on the discs and other pathological factors. But with the help of new imagining technology, degenerative changes ha...

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Build Health: Want To Prevent Diabetes?

Build Health: Want To Prevent Diabetes? by: William R. Quesnell To prevent diabetes you will get a real jolt when you follow the prescription offered up in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.” This ‘prestigious’ organizatio...

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Traumas as Social Interactions

Traumas as Social Interactions by: Sam Vaknin ("He" in this text - to mean "He" or "She"). We react to serious mishaps, life altering setbacks, disasters, abuse, and death by going through the phases of grieving. Traumas are the complex outcomes...

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