Sleep is an essential part of your health and well-being. If you don’t get enough sleep you can feel irate, drained, impatient and unproductive. If you over-sleep, you can feel groggy, sluggish and, oddly enough, sleepy. Not only does getting not enough sleep or too much sleep affect your emotional health, it can also upset
Read MoreDizziness and Summer Heat: Here Is What to Watch For
Hot summer days are perfect for trips to the beach or pool, cookouts, or hikes in the shady outdoors. But they’re not so ideal when the soaring heat index causes you to feel lightheaded or dizzy. If you get headaches during the summer, it might not be just a dehydration problem. You might have mechanical
Read MoreSymptoms of Kidney Stones
Kidney stones can be a scary and painful health complication. The surgery to have them removed is as equally uncomfortable in recovery as it is with the symptoms. Kidney stones occur in nearly 10% of adults, making it a very common condition that no one wants to talk about. That’s why knowing the causes and
Read MoreHow to Tell the Difference Between a Strain and a Sprain
“Sprains” and “strains” are often used interchangeably when describing a tearing or overstretching of the soft tissues in your body. In the moment of injury, you’re most likely not worried about semantics. However, these two terms distinguish the injuries of different body parts. The signs for these injuries can be very different as well. Knowing
Read MoreCommon Causes of Pediatric Injuries
Children tend to handle injuries fairly well. They run, they fall, they get a few cuts and scrapes, then they get right back up to run again. Most of these injuries are not serious. However, as limber and energetic as they are, they can suffer some serious injuries if an adult is not careful about
Read MorePainful Urination: What You Need to Know
Women and men both can experience painful urination (dysuria), but how and where it hurts can differ. The causes, diagnoses, and treatments may also be different. But whether you are a man or a woman, painful urination warrants a call to your doctor or a visit to your urgent care facility. If you are not
Read MoreFive Best (and Worst) Foods for your Joints
They say never go shopping on an empty stomach. But what about shopping on a bum knee, sore shoulder, or painful hip? While there are foods that may satisfy your sweet or salty cravings, maybe your joints are craving some nourishment as well! Here are the five best foods for your joints (and the five
Read MoreA Behind the Scenes Look at an Urgent Care
Urgent care facilities fill an important need: they provide you with prompt, comprehensive care when seeing your primary care physician isn’t an option. Falling in a category in-between a primary care doctor and the emergency room (ER), urgent care facilities treat important health problems – right away. Given the fact that urgent care facilities offer
Read MoreSummer Safety Tips for Ticks
For many of us the summer months mean heading outdoors to enjoy picnics, camping and hiking. But ticks are also getting active this time of year, too! Tick-borne diseases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 40,000 cases of tick-borne diseases were reported in 2015,
Read MoreImmunizations at Every Age
Polio, measles, whooping cough, tetanus. These diseases are rare these days. That’s because many diseases that were once feared are now preventable. Vaccinating not only protects your child, but other children, those with compromised immune systems, and educators, as well the community at large from contracting a disease. At what age should one receive certain
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