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Dentures: Not Removing at Night Leads to Problems
Written By Deb Wilson on October 28th • No Comments • UncategorizedIf you wear dentures, or care for someone who does, there are interesting study results suggesting a correlation between not removing dentures while sleeping and an increased risk for certain health issues, including pneumonia. Seniors who wear their dentures...
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Wireless Devices Have Potential to Change People’s Lives
Written By Deb Wilson on October 27th • No Comments • UncategorizedMedscape, from WebMD, a site that offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals robust and integrated medical information and educational tools, has spotlighted what cardiac electrophysiologist David Lee Scher, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Penn...
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Diabetes: Fighting to Win
Written By Deb Wilson on October 26th • No Comments • UncategorizedLeading diabetes researcher, George King, M.D., recently offered advice on new ways to beat diabetes. Dr. King states, in an article published by AARP, that “many people are not aware that you can improve your body’s response to insulin...
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Health Care: What’s New and Causing Excitment
Written By Deb Wilson on October 25th • No Comments • UncategorizedA recent AARP.com article has shed some light on some pretty cool “breakthroughs” that have occurred in the health care world. 1. A tiny wireless pacemaker that gives heart patients the freedom to dance again …Unlike conventional pacemakers, which...
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Dementia: Is it Really Dementia or Something Else?
Written By Deb Wilson on October 24th • No Comments • UncategorizedIf you, or a loved one started losing memories, repeating things that were just said, getting lost in a familiar environment or seeing things that no one else sees, would your first thought be that dementia is setting in?...
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A New Employer Benefit: Going Abroad for Surgery
Written By Deb Wilson on October 23rd • No Comments • UncategorizedIt would appear that employers are starting to gravitate toward encouraging employees to seek surgical care outside of the United States in another effort to control cost. From AARP.org, Vince Ellis needed a new knee. What the 58-year-old network...
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Diabetes Care: Improving Effectiveness of Medication
Written By Deb Wilson on October 22nd • No Comments • UncategorizedControlling Type 2 Diabetes with medication can be challenging. Some medication therapies cause serious side effects impacting the brain and heart while others may release too much insulin resulting in dangerous low blood sugar levels. However researchers, from the Department...
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Caregiving: Not Just for Adults
Written By Deb Wilson on October 21st • No Comments • UncategorizedWhat mental picture comes to mind when you imagine someone who is a caregiver? Is it an adult child or spouse taking care of a family member at home? Most likely it is, but there is another population of...
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Mental Health: When Help is Hard to Find
Written By Deb Wilson on October 20th • No Comments • UncategorizedThere is an interesting and disconcerting article from MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, concerning a barrier that may be occurring when it comes obtaining help for mental health issues. ...
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Weighty Issues: New Guidelines for Doctors Treating Obese Patients
Written By Deb Wilson on October 19th • No Comments • UncategorizedWith the focus and attention on how the American healthcare system is being burdened with the increased incidence of weight related medical conditions, it should come as no surprise that the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and...
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