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21 Healthy Swaps For Your Everyday Life

Some of our favorite foods can also be very high in calories, fat and sodium to name a few things. ...

Exercise Versus Activity

Exercise isn't just for the young and healthy When I visit with a patient I like to get a sense about ...

Target Heart Rate? 4 Reasons Not to Sweat It

If you’ve ever wondered what number is ideal for your fitness, or even tried to hit a “target” heart rate, our provider has some tips for you.

Taming School Stress: A Parent’s Guide

Rather than solving their problems, it’s more important for parents to guide children in how to deal with stress using these helpful tips from our child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Can Epilepsy be Prevented? 5 Myths Debunked

Just because you don’t have epilepsy doesn’t mean you’ll never have epilepsy. Though new cases are most common in infancy, ...

Is My Stent Open?

Here's a scenario that we cardiologists occasionally see. A patient comes into the hospital with chest pain. He goes to the ...

A Short History of Cardiac Catheterization

When I recommend that a patient needs coronary angiography (synonyms: heart catheterization, coronary angiogram, cardiac catheterization, or simply “cath”) I ...

Hoarding Disorder vs. Messiness

What is Hoarding Disorder? Hoarding disorders used to be considered a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but in 2013 it was classified ...

The Silent Killer

Last week I asked a patient what her blood pressure (BP) runs on a regular basis.  I had noticed a ...

Are There Ways I Can Boost My Immune System to Fight Illness?

The human body is by far the most advanced and sophisticated machine imaginable.  The level of complexity, number of systems, ...

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