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Get Heart Healthy!

By Jess McMullin, Heddington Oaks February is the perfect time to focus on your heart. Not only do we celebrate love with Valentine’s Day, but it is also American Heart Month. Heart disease is the number one killer of American women and men, and the leading cause of serious illness and disability. According to the […]

Molding Quality Healthcare Professionals

By Lori Lovely Many children dream of becoming doctors or nurses, but adults know that there are numerous other opportunities in the healthcare arena. There are a myriad of occupations in the health field, both clinical and non-clinical. Many of the fulfilling and lucrative non-clinical careers in the medical field don’t involve needles or bedpans. […]

People With Disabilities Need to Be Heard

By David Heitz People with a disability should never have to go through life being “good enough” at whatever they choose to do. Nobody knows that better than Tony Ezzi. Although he pulled Bs and Cs in high school, he knew his hearing impairment was holding him back from a report card full of aces. […]

Stressed Out? Stress Affects Both Body and Mind

Maybe it’s money trouble or the burden of caring for a sick relative. Maybe it’s your job. Maybe it’s the traffic. Whatever the cause, everyone seems stressed out these days. People once hotly debated the idea that stress can affect your body, but we now know that stress can cause both short- and long-term changes […]

Low-T Treatments Are the Rewards Worth the Risks?

By Amy Kennard You’ve probably heard the commercials about low-T. There are plenty of pharmaceutical companies and medical practices offering drugs, supplements and hormone-balancing treatments that profess to replenish a man’s youth and virility of which low-T has robbed him. But like many “cutting edge” treatments offered as one-offs by doctors not necessarily practicing within […]