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CDC Sets New Guidelines on Sex After Zika Exposure
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that could lead to severe birth defects, could be transmitted in more ways than health officials initially thought when the outbreak began last year.
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How Organ Size Affects the Organ Donation Process
Organ donation is a huge gift that saves many lives.
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Using Siri to Get Your Health Questions Answered? Here’s Why You Should Stop
Today, we live in a 24/7, on-demand world, where with the click of a button you can communicate with anyone in any place, have coffee delivered at your doorstep or learn about different diseases and conditions (thanks, in part, to blogs like this).
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Advances in GERD Treatment: First LINX Procedure in Central Florida Performed at Orlando Health
About 20 percent of Americans have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition in which the contents of the stomach re-enter the esophagus.
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Research Finds Female Caregivers May Suffer More
About 66 percent of caregivers in the U.S. are female, according to the AARP.
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Stress Management May Reduce Risk of A Second Heart Attack
About 610,000 Americans will die of heart disease every year. Coronary heart disease, which causes plaque buildup that can lead to a heart attack, is responsible for 370,000 of these deaths each year.
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Does Weighing Yourself Help?
Stepping on the scale can be a fear-inducing experience, but a recent study indicates that doing so could help you maintain a healthy weight.
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CDC: Low Treatment Rates for African Americans with HIV
Though the rate of HIV diagnoses has declined in the last decade, a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report finds that some
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Why Avoiding the Doctor is Men’s #1 Health Problem
From June 9 to 18, Dr. Parekattil and I drove across the country in an electric Tesla for the third annual Drive for Men’s Health, a 10-day, 6,000-mile, coast-to-coast journey that took us from Orlando to Atlanta, Washington DC, New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. As we made these stops, we’ve engaged many men in face-to-face conversations about their health and what they can do to improve it. We also used social media throughout our road trip to engage our followers in much-needed conversation about men’s health issues. This year, we reached over 300 million people with our online and offline efforts, getting men to #dropyourexcuse!
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Google Rolls Out Clearer Symptom Search Features
The troubles with finding health information by “Googling” – or typing your symptoms into an internet search engine – are well-known. From information created by non-experts to pages that present worst-case-scenarios (example: your headache is probably from a brain tumor), internet-surfers can become confused and frightened by the health information found in their search results.
