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Tongue Image Challenge
It has been awhile since we have had an image challenge for you to solve.Â
lisaebrayer
Feb 16, 20161 min read
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The Health Benefits of Dry January
My under 30 year old hairdresser mentioned to me that she was having a "Dry January".Â

EverythingHealth
Jan 21, 20162 min read
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If Health Care Worked Like Amazon
With the Covid Pandemic, I have been using Amazon a lot! Â The experience is so good and effortless it made me wonder how great it would...

EverythingHealth
Dec 23, 20152 min read
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Let's Talk Ebola
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EverythingHealth
Nov 15, 20142 min read
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Summertime Photosensitivity
EverythingHealth got a little behind in posting the answer to the image challenge this week. Click back on the link to see the photo. ...

EverythingHealth
Sep 26, 20141 min read
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Is it a Kidney Stone?
Kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) affects 1 in 11 people in the U.S. Some say its the worst pain they have ever experienced.  There are a...

EverythingHealth
Jul 30, 20141 min read
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Ovarian Cancer Screening
Here is a real case study fromAmerican Family Physician with the correct "answers" that may surprise women (and men). It is a common...

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May 30, 20142 min read
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When to Get a Colonoscopy
When you turn 50 years old, you enter the "procedure years". Fifty is the magic age for getting a screening colonoscopy. Why age 50? ...

EverythingHealth
Mar 27, 20142 min read
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How to Tell if it's the Common Cold or Flu
The "I feel awful" season is upon us. I challenge any reader to say they don't know someone who is out sick with some type of upper...

EverythingHealth
Jan 24, 20142 min read
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The Microbiome
I am fascinated by the new research and information on the gut microbiome. These microorganisms (germs, bacteria, microbes) live...

EverythingHealth
Dec 31, 20132 min read
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Things Doctors Do (That Normal People don't)
I have been too swamped to blog recently on EverythingHealth, spending lots of time with my physician colleagues (as well as patients). ...

EverythingHealth
Dec 27, 20131 min read
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Ignore these 15 Obamacare Myths
I've pulled my head up from frantic medical work just in time to give faithful readers 15 Myths that are being spread about Obamacare. I...

EverythingHealth
Oct 24, 20131 min read
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New Hep C Screening for Baby Boomers
If baby boomers weren't special enough, now the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has singled them out as a special group to be...

EverythingHealth
Sep 25, 20131 min read
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Some Doctors Set Their Own Pay
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) sets the rates all physicians get paid and insurance companies base their rates on the same...

EverythingHealth
Aug 20, 20132 min read
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Delay Cord Cutting in Newborns
A new study has shown that delaying cutting the cord in a newborn baby is associated with better health for the baby because more blood...

EverythingHealth
Jul 11, 20132 min read
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Poem - Do Not Resuscitate
Do Not Resuscitate I can say your father is dying. I can say wishing will not make it so, belief doesn't change a thing. I can say love...

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Jun 21, 20131 min read
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Morning After Pill Now Available Without Prescription
The U.S. Justice Department has dropped its appeal to block a ruling by a New York Federal Judge to allow easy access, over-the -counter...

EverythingHealth
Jun 18, 20132 min read
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Komen Suffers For Its Blunder
How do you wreck a beloved brand? Just look at Susan G. Komen Foundation For the Cure (Breast Cancer) and remember what a well-known...

EverythingHealth
Jun 13, 20132 min read
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Few Americans Understand Basics of New Health Care Law
I wrote recently about the massive confusion about ObamaCare ( the Affordable Care Act) but it seems that it is much worse than I...

EverythingHealth
May 22, 20132 min read
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Blame Bunions on your Genes
There is good news for women who love high heels and pointy toe shoes. Contrary to what we've been told, they don't cause bunions. A...

EverythingHealth
May 19, 20131 min read
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