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American Healthcare: How Do We Compare?
Written By Deb Wilson on December 28th • No Comments • UncategorizedHealth care is an ever present topic of concern in the United States as we search for the way to best provide affordable and quality health care for our citizens. As we ponder and discuss, the conversation always turns...
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Doctor-Patient Conversation: Important Topics to Address
Written By Deb Wilson on December 27th • No Comments • UncategorizedThere are certain aspects of our health care that a lot of us feel hesitant, even embarrassed, to talk about with our doctor. Following that urge to ignore or gloss over these subjects hinders the doctor from providing us...
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Doctor-Patient Conversation: Important Topics to Address
Written By Deb Wilson on December 27th • No Comments • UncategorizedThere are certain aspects of our health care that a lot of us feel hesitant, even embarrassed, to talk about with our doctor. Following that urge to ignore or gloss over these subjects hinders the doctor from providing us...
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End of Year Checklist
Written By Deb Wilson on December 26th • No Comments • UncategorizedNow that you’ve made it through the Christmas holiday it’s time to start preparing for the New Year. To help, I like to share an “End of the Year” checklist that we’ve compiled to remind you of certain activities...
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Merry Christmas!
Written By Deb Wilson on December 25th • No Comments • UncategorizedI want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas today. I hope it was a day filled with joy, wonder and the blessing of good friends and family! I will be back tomorrow with more of the latest...
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Doctor Shortage: One Doctor’s Insight on Another Shortage
Written By Deb Wilson on December 24th • No Comments • UncategorizedAn interesting and amusing article in the New York Times by Abigail Zuger, M.D., an internist and infectious disease specialist in New York, New York, about her “worth” as a doctor when caring for her aging parents over the course of...
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Talking Map for the Blind
Written By Deb Wilson on December 23rd • No Comments • UncategorizedToday is about some new technology being developed in a partnership between Touch Graphics Inc. (TGI) and developers at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDeA Center) that will help individuals who are blind...
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Diabetes Drugs and Dehydration
Written By Deb Wilson on December 22nd • No Comments • UncategorizedDiabetes by its nature creates a risk for dehydration. Compounding that risk, researchers are learning that drugs used to increase the release of insulin, functioning the same way as many common injectable treatments for diabetes, also may inhibit fluid...
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Social Anxiety and the Holidays!
Written By Deb Wilson on December 21st • No Comments • UncategorizedSocial anxiety is defined by Dr. Kalina Michalska, a research fellow in the Section on Developmental and Affective Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), as an “overestimation the likelihood of being rejected and frequently fearing that he...
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Multiple Sclerosis: Guide to Exercising
Written By Deb Wilson on December 20th • No Comments • UncategorizedMultiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that comes with pain and fatigue, among other symptoms, that do not encourage physical activity. As a result, researchers, at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school and the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland...
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