Cover Story
You Don’t Have to Smile for This Camera
The “Capsule” gastrointestinal endoscopy technique is no longer experimental. It has become the standard of care for assessing the small intestine.
Arthur Kaufman
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Health
Virus
The annual question… do I take the flu shot?
The Flu Virus penetrates the cells that line the respiratory tract and multiply by the thousands. Cells are destroyed and the new viruses infect neighboring cells exploding like a nuclear reaction. The infection proceeds unchecked for over a week until the immune system responds.
Bruce Hirsch
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Nutrition
Thanksgiving & Healthy Eating
This Thanksgiving holiday, you can eat healthier with some simple changes to how you prepare your food and how much you eat.
From traditional turkey and potatoes dinner to a pumpkin pie dessert, American Thanksgiving invariably revolves around food. With new scientific evidence confirming good nutrition lowers the risk of many diseases, it is now more important than ever to eat healthily.
Samuel Grief
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Cancer
"Watchful Waiting” Not Best Approach to Prostate Cancer
After fifteen years of following men in this study, nearly sixty percent of those who received treatment are still alive as opposed to only twenty-seven percent of the men who chose watchful waiting.
Donald R. Fleming
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Bones and Joints
Osteoporosis ... Isn’t Normal at Any Age
My mother was recently diagnosed with osteoporosis. What causes this disease and is there anything that she can do to help and what can I do to prevent this from happening to me?
Siroth Charnond
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Skin
Your Skin Biopsy. Beware
It is estimated that approximately 1 in 50 individuals born this year will develop malignant melanoma, the most dangerous and often life threatening form of skin cancer in their lifetime.
Clay J. Cockerell
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Patient Rights
First, Do No Harm, Errors in Medicine
There are more ways to give medication to a patient than ever were thought possible. With all these advances come a greater number of chances to make errors of omission, or commission.
C. Robert Meloni
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Healing
Alternative Medicine
Alternative Treatments for Menopause and its Symptoms
Do not despair if you have menopausal symptoms and are afraid of or cannot take synthetic hormone replacement.
There are alternatives that work just as well.
Larry Altshuler,
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Pharmacy
Chickenpox virus is not just a kid’s concern
Many of us never give the chickenpox a second thought, unless we are exposed to the virus by a child or relative who has it. In that case, it is probably the topic of conversation…where or who they contracted it from, the extent of the blisters, the itching, and the overall general miserable feeling associated with it.
Tamara Dulin
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Wellbeing
Memory... Remembering and forgetting
All of us can get annoyed when we are trying to remember a name, a phone number, a place, or where we put something. Sometimes we worry about our memory; are we losing it? But some forgetting in people is caused by excessive memories
Jim Hawley
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Allergies
Weapons against allergic symptoms…
Because of the over use of antibiotics, especially using inadequate doses, bacteria have developed antibiotic resistance.
We know that allergy and asthma are increasing today, but we don’t know why.
Murray Grossan
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Alternative Medicine
House Calls: The herbal way...
I read that raw milk is healthier than pasteurized or homogenized milk. If that is true, where can I obtain raw milk?
This is an excellent question. Fresh and unprocessed is important because uncooked food (milk) contains essential enzymes that are vital to life.
M. Tray Dunaway
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Coming Soon
- Tasty Recipes for Vegetarians
- Warning Signs of Heart Attack in Women
- Hair Loss and Its Effect
- We are traveling state by state: Texas is our first stop!
- Sleepless in Seattle…Chicago, New York… Cures for Insomnia
- Rhonda Fleming: A heart for the homeless
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Happiness
Nutrition
Hearty Soups Warm the Home
There is nothing quite like a hearty soup to take the chill off a cool evening. Our family always looks forward to that first pot of soup, stew, or chili. Two of our favorites are chunky minestrone and lentil. You can add a touch of creativity and make your meal more attractive by serving the soup in a bowl made from whole grain bread.
Connie Trinkle
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Skin
Beauty Is In the Eye of the Beholder
Baby Boomers are faced with the situation that their appearance does not match their youthful vigor. This disconnect is often remedied by cosmetic surgery to the upper face. It is especially true with eyelid surgery.
Connie Trinkle
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Physical Fitness
A Pain in the Neck
Most of these problems become chronic because we never look at how we treat our bodies on a daily basis.
Elaine Petrone
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Financial Health
Your Financial Health
What is the right way to make a loan to an adult child to keep it official, and yet have the terms be more liberal than an institution’s would be? We want to help our daughter and son-in-law, yet we want to avoid setting a precedent by making a large gift to them because we have other children to consider.
Rhoda Israelov
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Plant Therapy
INVIGORATE YOUR GARDEN AND YOURSELF, a 4-step program
By mid-summer, most gardens are looking a bit run down and could benefit from an infusion of some exuberant color and eye-catching textures and shapes.
Fran Sorin
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Travel
To Cruise or not to Cruise
We asked experienced cruisers to share their recollections and realizations about the pros, cons, and in-betweens of cruise line adventures. Here’s what they said…
Paula Leohr
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Pet Relationships
No Animals Were Harmed
Concerns about animals on movies began in 1939 when a horse plummeted from a cliff into the water.
In Evan Almighty, no animals were harmed, though hundreds of animals were used in the movie, likely representing more species than any other motion picture ever made...
Steve Dale
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Regular Features
From the Publisher’s Desk
Selling Yourself Short
During a recent staff meeting, I explained to my staff how some people sell themselves short by not asking for enough money from their employers at the time of their annual evaluation. At the end of the presentation one employee said, “Dr. Brar when I come for my evaluation, I will make sure that I ask for plenty of money so that I don’t sell myself short.” Needless to say, this statement was the subject of my next staff meeting...
Dev Anuroop Brar
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Pitter from Pat
Carry-On
My husband’s warning “We need to watch the weight limit on the bags,” echoed in my head
How does one determine the amount of clothing to take on vacation? I am continually amazed at the ability of some of my friends who are able to pack everything they need in one tiny bag. In fact, I have a friend who travels frequently with long layovers, and takes all of her necessities in a carry-on.
Patricia Kirby
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