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  • Pop Quiz: The reality of breast cancer in men

    Pop Quiz: The reality of breast cancer in men

    Test your knowledge and be prepared to prevent and detect Breast cancer awareness is generally directed at women, but it’s a disease that can affect men as well, albeit at a much lower rate of occurrence. Despite being less common, male breast cancer is a serious concern because it can be just like any other…

  • How three fingers helped save my life

    How three fingers helped save my life

    Jerri Huntt’s self-breast exam that changed everything Like many women, Jerri Huntt was skeptical. She didn’t expect examining her own breasts for lumps would help her. “I’m never going to find a lump even if have one,” she thought.

  • Local Chat and Chew now offered after hours

    Local Chat and Chew now offered after hours

    Community volunteer organization creates new event to help put willpower back in your diet With our fast paced, 21st century lives, it is sometimes challenging to prepare good, nutritious meals for ourselves and our families. There are meals sold in restaurants found on every corner that are high in fat, salt, cholesterol, and sugar, and…

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  • Ask a Nurse: The evolution of modern medicine

    Ask a Nurse: The evolution of modern medicine

    Did you know that an anesthesiologist (the doctor that puts you to sleep and keeps you alive during surgery) wasn’t even considered a field or specialty in medicine until 1941!1 Could you imagine undergoing surgery without anesthesia? Barbaric! Thoracic surgery (chest surgery) wasn’t approved until 1970, and bariatric (obesity) medicine has yet to become an official…

  • Medical Advice: Avoiding mosquitoes and chikungunya virus

    Medical Advice: Avoiding mosquitoes and chikungunya virus

    I was first introduced to a disease known as chikungunya during my medical training.  Initially, I dismissed this foreign illness as something I would probably not see in my career.  Chikungunya was originally found in Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific.  This changed on December 2013, when there was…

  • Editor’s Dose: Adventures with school physicals!

    Editor’s Dose: Adventures with school physicals!

    It’s school physical time already! Am I the only one who feels like summer went by way too fast? Maybe it’s because “time flies when you’re having fun.” Or, maybe it’s because time flies when you have four kids . . . maybe it’s a combination of both. Either way, our house is in full…

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