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Sublingual treatment: New tool for combating peanut allergies?

For people with a peanut allergy, avoiding an attack involves much more than skipping a PB&J sandwich in ...

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MIND GAMES: Hone your mental skills with array of fun, challenging exercises

There’s ever-mounting evidence from medical experts that brain games like Wordle, Sudoku and Crushstations are beneficial for seniors. ...

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‘Breath hold’ technique helps patients in radiation therapy

Imagine being told that a tumor has been found on your lung or breast and that you will ...

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Those super-processed foods are super bad for your health

“Super” is usually a positive, upbeat adjective. Superstore. Superheroes. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. But you don’t want to see it describing ...

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New treatments in sight for eye disease common in seniors

Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) affects millions of people worldwide, most of them elderly. It is a leading ...

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Endometrial cancer: Common but ‘very curable’

Endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, is a serious threat to women’s health worldwide, with 417,000 new ...

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Body dysmorphic disorder: A painful search for perfection

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda made headlines in May when she revealed in People Magazine that she ...

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Life-saving stroke care now available to more patients

“Treatment for stroke underwent a major change in 2014 when the ‘MR CLEAN’ report was issued – it ...

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‘DOUBLE’ VISION CARE – Combo surgery treats cataracts and glaucoma at same time

The eyes are the windows to the soul, or so the saying goes. But they are also windows ...

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New ACL repair technique harnesses body’s own healing abilities

Ellamae Crooks was a striker on the Masters Academy soccer team in Vero Beach when, during a scrimmage ...

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Vitamin B12 deficiency: Often underdiagnosed and overlooked

Vitamin B12 has a good reputation as a quick way to increase energy and improve wellbeing, but its ...

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Major increase in anorexia nervosa attributed to pandemic

Everyone from Truman Capote to Joan Rivers to the Duchess of Windsor has been credited with coining the ...