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  • Can Fibroids Affect Your Baby? Understanding Risks

     

  • Kids, COVID-19 and Daycare: What You Need to Know to Keep Them Safe

    With schools reopening, many parents will be returning to the workplace and relying on daycares and caregivers to look after their children. Many new public health precautions have been put in place to help limit the spread of COVID-19 in these settings. And there are steps you can take as a parent for your child to resume the benefits of socialization and education offered at daycares, while reducing their risk of infection.

  • To Circumcise or Not: What To Consider

    Circumcision, the removal of the foreskin from your infant’s penis, is a personal decision that often can be stressful for parents.

  • Hand Injury Prevention: How To Protect Your Hands at Work

    If your job involves manual labor, it may be difficult to escape the risk of hurting your hands, which are often put in harm’s way when handling machinery, tools and raw materials.

  • Gallbladder: A Tiny Organ with a Big Impact

    It may not grab the spotlight the way the heart and lungs do, but your gallbladder plays a key role in your health. Understanding how this tiny but mighty organ works — and what can happen when it doesn’t — can you help identify potential problems.

  • Is Sitting the New Smoking?

    Most of us know that smoking isn’t good for our health, but what about sitting? We all do that, whether at work, at school or during our daily commute—not to mention during meals and leisure time. So, when research linked sitting for long periods of time with a number of health concerns, people began to wonder what alternatives they had, including working at a standing desk.

  • How Too Much Stress Can Cause Weight Gain (and What to Do About It)

    The question of whether excess amounts of cortisol can lead to weight gain is essentially the same as asking if too much stress can cause you to put on unwanted pounds. The answer in both cases is yes.

  • Why Am I Waking Up Tired After 8 Hours of Sleep?

    The easiest way to explain sleep apnea is that a person’s breathing repeatedly stops or pauses while they are asleep. When this happens, the throat muscles relax and you may snore, then your body often wakes you up to resume breathing again. It can make you tired, even after a full night’s rest. Multiple sleep interruptions prevent you from sleeping soundly and can leave you feeling extremely tired during the day.

  • Vaccinations Every Adult Should Have

    Immunizations aren’t just for preventing disease in children. Vaccinations recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also can protect adults from diseases such as pneumonia, influenza and measles that cause serious illness and even death. In fact, adults who contract measles have a greater risk of death than children with measles.

  • 7 Ways to Boost Your Immune System

    The best way to deal with any medical condition — even COVID-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus — is by using prevention. It’s important that we do whatever we can to avoid getting sick, and that includes washing your hands thoroughly, regularly and effectively. Many viruses are transmitted by your own hands.