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Know Your Calcium Score to Prevent a Heart Attack
The shortest way to explain a calcium score is this: By knowing what yours is, you can determine your risk for heart events over the next several years.
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What’s So Complex About Complex Abdominal Surgery?
If your doctor recently used the term “complex abdominal surgery” in regards to a procedure you or a loved one might need, it’s understandable if you felt confused. This all-inclusive term refers to any abdominal operation complicated by other health factors.
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Daylight Saving Time Is Ending, Reset Your Internal Clocks
For the past century, the opinion on daylight saving time (DST) has been sharply divided between those who support it and those who oppose it. Funny thing, though: Both sides are still not exactly sure what it does. What started as an energy conservation trick became a national standard in the 1960s. With small exceptions (Arizona, Hawaii and three others), it hasn’t budged much ever since.
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Debunking Myths About HPV and Its Deadly Connection to Cervical Cancer
Why should someone in their 30s have to make end-of-life preparations over a disease like cervical cancer, especially when we know the disease can be prevented? One reason may be misconceptions about the disease and the HPV vaccine that put women at risk until it’s too late.
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Eat Right to Perform Well and Reach Your Ideal Body Composition
When people are interested in improving their workouts or training, they often consider what cardiovascular and strength-training exercises they should do. While these exercises are important, another essential factor that can be overlooked is nutrition and how it can affect the workout.
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Getting Ready for Baby: Prenatal Care and Education
Whether it’s your first baby or your fourth, expectant moms can prepare for a healthy delivery and a healthy baby through prenatal care and education.
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Smaller Incisions, Quicker Recovery Among Robotic Surgery’s Benefits for Urology Patients
Robotic surgery is increasingly used in urology, where the focus is on the male and female urinary tract, male genitals and male reproduction. Robotic surgery uses laparoscopic abdominal surgery to remove kidney stones, urine blockages and most commonly, to remove minimally invasive cancer cells in the kidneys, bladder and prostate.
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Do I have a Food Allergy? When to Get Tested
Food allergies are common, with 4% to 6% of children and 4% of adults having one. A food allergy is a response from your immune system to eating a particular food or additive. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most food allergies are caused by milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, soy and wheat. Allergic reactions to these foods can vary from a tingling around the mouth to hives to difficulty breathing and even death.
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Choose the Royal Treatment for Your Baby's Birth
When Meghan Markle gave birth to a baby boy this morning, she no doubt received the royal treatment during labor and delivery. But you don’t have to be a duchess to be pampered before, during and after giving birth. While the newest royal was born across the pond, here in Orlando, parents can create their own luxurious experience.
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New Minimally Invasive Procedure Gives Heart Patients More Options
Previously, patients with mitral valve regurgitation (MR) had very few options if they weren’t candidates for surgery. The condition, in which one of the heart valves does not close tightly, allowing blood to flow backward into the heart’s left chamber, can lead palpitations, difficulty breathing and fluid build-up in the lungs in patients who have a severe form of this heart disorder.
