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Here is the newest research on the top 10 healthiest foods. Bon Appetit! If you could eat foods that were tasty, nutritious and helped reduce your risk of disease, what more could you want? The August issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource offers its 10 top picks for healthy foods: Apples: Apples are a good [...]

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Emergency Contraceptive over the counter, but not without a fight. After a 3 year long battle with the FDA, the emergency contraceptive, Plan B is finally over the counter. It will be avail;able in major pharmacies by the end of this year for women 18 years of age or older. Both sides of this issue [...]

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The first human clinical trial to assess the effects of grape seed extract on people with metabolic syndrome. Read more about it… Grape seed extract lowered the blood pressure of patients who participated in a UC Davis study of the benefits of the supplement on people with high blood pressure. Conducted by UC Davis cardiovascular [...]

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We are all familiar with childhood immunizations, you know…those shots you had as a baby but can’t remember exactly what they were or if you have a record of them. Now there are some other vaccines to think about in the teenage years (ages 11-19). Hepatitis B is a serious disease that can cause short-term [...]

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