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Dry Drowning: What You Need to Know

Dry Drowning: What You Need to Know

In the heat of summer, jumping into a pool, lake or ocean offers a refreshing break from the norm. You’re probably aware of the dangers of drowning, but a lesser-known danger can occur minutes or even hours after exiting the water. There are two types of drowning that...

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Beat the Heat: Stay Cool to Protect Your Health

Beat the Heat: Stay Cool to Protect Your Health

The summer sun can be a treat, especially after a long winter. It makes for warm, relaxing days by the beach and pool. But there are days when you have to be outside in the sun and can't cool down in the water. Whether you're exercising or working outdoors, the sun...

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Insects Summer Safety Guide

Insects Summer Safety Guide

While you may wait all year for summer to roll around, one aspect of the season that no one looks forward to is the massive increase in insects. Whether you’ve been bitten or stung by a mosquito, bee, wasp, tick, flea, mite or ant, the itching and burning sensation...

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Knowing the Contributing Factors of Heart Disease

Knowing the Contributing Factors of Heart Disease

Have A Heart To Heart With Your Parents Knowing your family health history can be very instrumental in managing your own heart health. Basically examining your family’s health history especially your parents, siblings and grandparents can provide you with a possible...

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Carcinogens Separating Fact From Fiction

Carcinogens Separating Fact From Fiction

It may seem as if every day we hear on the news, or other social media news outlet that something “new” causes cancer. This information can be very distressing to some people and yet others reaction may be to simply shrug the “new” information off as not believable,...

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Signs and Symptoms of Heart Disease

Signs and Symptoms of Heart Disease

What Is Heart Disease? Heart disease is a broad term that healthcare professionals use as a general description of someone whose heart isn’t functioning as it should be, or “normally”. Congenital Heart Disease When you’re born with heart disease the medical term for...

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Teen E-Cig Use is Troubling

Teen E-Cig Use is Troubling

Teens And Cigarette Smoking Just when it appears that we’re finally making some measurable headway in reducing the number of young people that smoke cigarettes in the United States along comes E-Cigarettes. Despite the claim that e-cigarettes will steer kids away from...

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Low Back Pain: Non-Invasive Treatments that Work

Low Back Pain: Non-Invasive Treatments that Work

Nobody likes pain, but in a way pain can help us. Pain can alert you that there is something wrong with your body, prompting a doctor or hospital visit that can provide medical diagnosis, treatment recommendations, and possibly relief from the pain. Unfortunately for...

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