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Can Stem Cell Therapy Cure My Cancer?
For some patients with blood cancers, stem cell therapy represents a real chance for a cure.
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What's a Vulva?
Episode 30 What's a Vulva?
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What's That Bony Bump?
Episode 14 What's That Bony Bump?
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7 Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
High blood pressure is often called the silent killer, and with good reason. It has no symptoms and affects 75 million people in the U.S. — or 1 in 3 adults. Of those who have high blood pressure (also called hypertension), only half have their blood pressure under control.
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The End of Hugs and Handshakes?
As the new school year approaches, it’s important to discuss with your child about the upcoming changes that will be in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Limiting person-to-person contact is key to reducing spread of the virus. Yet healthy socialization and development still must be fostered among school-age children. How to keep young ones from touching surfaces and not their face is a difficult task, indeed — which is why hugs and handshakes will be discouraged for now. To ensure that social connections and well-being are maintained, other types of behaviors will be encouraged instead.
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Do You Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?
The early morning sunlight peeks through the curtains, the birds twitter outside and your sneakers lie by the door, ready for you. The only question is, Will you get up and go?
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How Much Sleep Does My Baby Need?
It’s 2:00 am, your newborn is crying again and you’re tiredly asking yourself, “But why won’t he just sleep awhile longer?” Getting a newborn on any kind of a sleeping schedule just isn’t going to happen, and for one very good reason — babies less than three months old are frequently waking for feeds and sleeping up to 17 hours a day. For the first three months, new parents must remind themselves that, for the time being, you’re in survival mode.
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Why Does My Stomach Get So Bloated?
Bloating. It's that uncomfortable, overly full, sometimes even painful feeling in your stomach that makes you want to take a nap until the sensation passes. Bloating even can make your stomach look swollen or feel hard to the touch. Although women often feel bloated for a few days or weeks before their period, anyone can have occasional bloating.
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Be Your Own Heart Hero on World Heart Day
World Heart Day is celebrated every year on September 29th. This global campaign highlights the actions that we each can take to prevent and control cardiovascular disease (CVD). Created by the World Health Federation, World Heart Day raises awareness around the globe that CVD, including heart disease and stroke, claims 17.9 million lives each year?, making it the world’s leading cause of death. But it doesn’t need to be this way.
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New Treatments for Lung Cancer
Harnessing the body’s immune system to help destroy lung cancer cells is the goal of new therapies being developed at UF Health Cancer Center — Orlando Health. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women, causing more deaths every year than breast, prostate, and colon cancers combined, according to the Cancer Research Institute. Cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly 80 percent of lung cancers.
