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The High Price of Addiction
What is addiction? It is a compulsive and often uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a drug or an activity. Addicts use even when they know using is not in their best interest and can lead to serious consequences.
Vertebroplasty for Treatment of Spine Fracture
Back pain is an extremely common ailment among people of all ages. When a physician is faced with a patient complaining of back pain, there are a great many considerations for establishing the cause of the pain.
Why and How to Stop Smoking
Why are health advocates so militant about their anti-smoking efforts? Because it really matters! I have on my desk a trophy. It’s a pack of cigarettes recently given to me by a patient.
Your Health Advocate: Choosing a Primary Care Physician
A primary care physician (PCP) is your main doctor who provides preventive and maintenance health care and helps to manage your care by referring you to specialists when the need arises.
An Onsite Clinic Success Story
Consider what life must be like for a 36-year-old woman--we’ll call her Ann--who is a single mother of a handicapped child and is employed full-time. That information alone might give you a clue that she probably doesn’t find time to eat properly or exercise.
Colon Cancer Prevention: A Personal Mission
Colon cancer is the most preventable but least prevented cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, 60 percent of Americans over the age of 50 have never been screened! Why does the topic of colon cancer keep surfacing in the media? Why is it so important?
What You Need to Know about Diabetes
A quick glance at the numbers is all it takes to understand the scope of the problem. An estimated 20.8 million Americans have diabetes, although only 70 percent (14.6 million) are aware they have it. Another 54 million adults over the age of 20 have pre-diabetes.
What's Eating Your Teeth?
An almost invisible but extraordinarily damaging epidemic is affecting the dental health of Americans these days, but I'll bet you’ve never even heard of it! Let me ask you some questions about your dental health, and if you need to, go take a look in your mouth or think back to visits to your dentist.
Your Health Advocate: Generic Drugs
Now is the time to choose generic drugs. Generic medications are widely accepted by doctors and pharmacists. Already, more than 40 percent of all medications dispensed annually are generic drugs and the availability of generic drugs is constantly expanding.
Eating for a Healthy Heart
Heart disease may begin with a diagnosis of high cholesterol or high blood pressure, but can quickly lead to more serious conditions like atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke, or even heart failure if left untreated. To reduce your risk of developing heart disease, it is essential to keep your cholesterol and blood pressure levels within normal ranges.
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