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Southwest General Health Center’s ‘Healthy Hearts’ makes a great gift for mom

May 9, 2010 Top Health Tips

Southwest General Health Center’s ‘Healthy Hearts’ makes a great gift for mom When Emily Johnson saw information about the Healthy Hearts for Her program in the Southwest General Health Center magazine, the first thing she did was call her mother. Read more on The News Sun

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Lifestyle choices can radically improve your health

April 28, 2010 Top Health Tips

Lifestyle choices can radically improve your health It seems that every day, researchers are confirming that lifestyle factors – such as proper diet and exercise, weight control and not smoking – can have a powerful impact on preventing problems such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and cancer. Read more on [...]

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Asthma in Adolescents

August 30, 2009 Adolescent Health

Image via Wikipedia Most of the teenagers who have asthma are also allergic to many things. The asthma can get severe even if the people with asthma are exposed to allergens of low grade. Allergies play an important role in asthma cased which are undiagnosed. Other factors that also trigger childhood asthma include upper respiratory [...]

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Common Oral Health Problems in Adolescents

August 28, 2009 Adolescent Health

Image via Wikipedia Adolescents face many oral health problems which may require them to visit a dentist or  health care professional. Adolescents with braces are a common sight. Another problem is wisdom teeth extraction or the removal of the third molar. Dental cavities are yet another common problem in teens. Orthodontics is a specialty in [...]

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Caffeine and Pregnancy: How much is too much

August 25, 2009 Pregnancy

Image by Omar_MK via Flickr One of the first things most of us women prepare to say goodbye to once we see those two pink lines on our pregnancy tests is caffeine. Many women will stop their caffeine habit cold turkey out of the sheer fear of doing some sort of damage to the new [...]

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Periodontal Disease in Adolescents

August 20, 2009 Adolescent Health

Image by Phil Dragash via Flickr The meaning of the word “periodontal” is around the tooth. Also known as gum diseases, periodontal diseases are serious infections caused by bacteria that harm the gums and tissues in the vicinity of the mouth. While dental cavities or caries only affects the tooth Periodontal disease is devastating affecting [...]

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Infectious Mononucleosis

August 18, 2009 Adolescent Health

Image via Wikipedia Also known as mononucleosis or mono Pfeiffer’s disease or glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis can be identified by inflamed lymph glands and constant fatigue. The disease is named so as the amount of mononuclear leukocytes which belong to white cells increase in number. The cause of the disease is EBV (Epstein – Barr [...]

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Scoliosis in Adolescents

August 17, 2009 Adolescent Health

Image via Wikipedia Normally, a spine when viewed from rear should appear straight but if the spine is lateral or curved or sideways or rotated then it is affected by scoliosis. It gives an appearance as if the person has leaned to a side. According to Scoliosis Research Society the definition of scoliosis is the [...]

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