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If you’ve been feeling sluggish, spring weather and its accompanying activities can really highlight that fact. Energy levels can be affected by many things, so here’s a few tricks on how to get them higher, including which vitamins to take for energy: 1) Make sure you’re getting enough quality sleep. Whether you don’t have the [...]

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Just as tick bites are expected to be a bigger problem this summer, mosquito bites will be a similar problem. Just like ticks, mosquito populations are larger and coming earlier—and to complicate both tick and mosquito bites the range for transmitted diseases spreads a little each year, and ticks in particular are being recorded as [...]

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In 2010 there were about 30,000 US cases of lyme disease or probable lyme disease symptoms. This year, after a mild winter, the tick population is expected to be large, and the increase in exposure will likely lead to an increase in tick bites and subsequent lyme disease cases. And tick season has already been [...]

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There are many different varieties of medical implants being used daily: catheters to perform surgeries, devices that support the body (like mesh), devices that replace parts like joints, and of course elective devices like those used to shrink stomachs. And there are few rules (which are rarely enforced) about testing any of these products for [...]

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Staph infection symptoms can be hard to beat, and risk high—antibiotic resistant strains can leave you in the hospital for months, and if not caught early infection symptoms can spread to deep layers of the skin, blood, or other parts of the body. But are they ever really cured? You may get rid of infection [...]

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