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Seven steps to better eye health
NewsHealth and FitnessFrom the smile on a baby’s face to the glory of a North Florida sunset, the world is a beautiful place, filled with scenes of majesty and grandeur. Here are seven steps you can...
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Fit Life: Sitting all day at work? Consider walking meetings
NewsHealth and FitnessDoes this sound like your typical work day? Sitting at your computer, sitting at meetings, and sitting while eating. All this sitting adds up quickly, with people spending as much...
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Florida Blue to stop paying for OxyContin on Jan. 1
NewsHealth and FitnessFlorida Blue, the leading health insurer in Florida, announced Tuesday that beginning Jan. 1 most of its health-care policies will no longer pay for OxyContin. Read more Photos...
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Inspired by 7-year-old grandson, Saint Johns man stages benefit for epilepsy...
NewsHealth and FitnessJeff Sedlitz is 6-foot-2, 275 pounds and doesn’t scare easily. Read more beth.cravey@jacksonville.com Photos Beth Reese Cravey
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Health Notes: Mayo physicians have developed a brain-mapping tool
NewsHealth and FitnessApproximately 3.4 million Americans and over 60 million people worldwide are living with epilepsy, a condition marked by recurrent seizures. Epileptic seizures, which are caused...
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Recognizing concussions: information for parents and caregivers
NewsHealth and FitnessRecent media attention on concussions in professional athletes has caused many parents and caregivers to have safety concerns regarding football and other sports. While...
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St. Vincent’s Riverside to build a $55 million heart, vascular pavilion
NewsHealth and FitnessSt. Vincent’s HealthCare will spend $55 million to create a new heart and vascular pavilion at St. Vincent’s Medical Center Riverside. Read more charlie.patton@jacksonville.com...
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Mayo Clinic cardiologist: New blood-pressure diagnosis guidelines ‘good for...
NewsHealth and FitnessLeslie T. Cooper Jr., the Jacksonville-based chairman of cardiology at Mayo Clinic’s three campuses, has high hopes for the public health impacts of new diagnostic guidelines for...
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Making a difference key for new CEO of mental-health nonprofit
NewsHealth and FitnessWendy Hughes watched her father struggle with depression. Read more beth.cravey@jacksonville.com Photos Beth Reese Cravey
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Health Notes: Five Jacksonville hospitals get A safety grades from the...
NewsHealth and FitnessBaptist Medical Center Jacksonville, the Mayo Clinic, St. Vincent’s Medical Center Riverside, St. Vincent’s Medical Center Southside and St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County...
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Health Notes: Mayo’s Thomas Brott honored by the American Heart Association...
NewsHealth and FitnessNeurologist Thomas Brott, a professor of neurosciences on Mayo Clinic’s Jacksonville campus, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 Research Achievement Award from the...
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Doctor’s long journey from Mexican poverty to trying to ‘cure the world’ at...
NewsHealth and FitnessWhen Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa was approached last year about coming to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville as the William J. and Charles H. Mayo professor and chairman of the...
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The Doctors Are In: Insect allergies should not be taken lightly
NewsHealth and FitnessIn North Florida, insect encounters are a commonplace occurrence; insect allergy is a frequent concern seen in the office of an allergy & immunology physician. The most common...
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Wolfson Children’s Hospital now has a pediatric trauma center
NewsHealth and FitnessWolfson Children’s Hospital is now equipped and staffed to treat pediatric trauma cases. Read more charlie.patton@jacksonville.com Photos Charlie Patton
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1 week left to sign up for Affordable Care Act health insurance for 2018
NewsHealth and FitnessThe deadline to sign up for 2018 health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is Friday. It is six weeks earlier than last year. Read more Photos The...
View ArticleDr. Zorba Paster: Dementia down, but docs don’t know why
Health and FitnessMy mom died from dementia, Alzheimer’s possibly, but without an autopsy it’s hard to say. That was back in 1981 when MRIs didn’t exist and CT scans were in their infancy. So I always...
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Health Notes: UF Health Jacksonville is among 89 hospitals involved in a...
NewsHealth and FitnessUF Health Jacksonville is among 89 hospitals involved in a national improvement collaborative for children seen in the emergency room or hospitalized with asthma. Asthma affects...
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Nursed to Health: Ostomies can take some getting used to
NewsHealth and FitnessPresident Dwight Eisenhower, former pro golfer Al Geiberger, former all-pro Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer, the late U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas “Tip” O’Neill and Olympic gold...
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Friday is last day for most people to buy individual health-care policies for...
NewsHealth and FitnessDarnell Smith, North Florida market president for Florida Blue, expects Friday to be a very long, very busy day. Read more charlie.patton@jacksonville.com Photos Charlie Patton
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