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Dying For A Good Night’s Sleep?
Written by Wellness Club on March 14, 2012 – 1:32 pm -By Nurse Mark Are you Dying For A Good Night’s Sleep? If you take even a few sleeping pills a year the answer may be “Yes!” To sleep, Perchance to dream… Has been the sometimes elusive goal of mankind for millennia. Most people will have trouble sleeping at some time or another [...]
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Cholesterol FastFacts
Written by Wellness Club on March 13, 2012 – 2:57 pm -Cholesterol: A FastFacts Look At An Essential Substance How much do you know about cholesterol? Though much-maligned by Big Pharma, cholesterol is essential to our life and health. Cholesterol is a fatty, waxy substance found in the cell membranes and transported in the blood plasma of all animals. It is an essential [...]
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Dr. Myatt’s Cardiovascular Risk Checklist
Written by Wellness Club on March 1, 2012 – 3:33 pm -Forward By Nurse Mark: February was Heart Month. Dr. Myatt wanted to give something to you, her readers to honor Heart Month, and so she began to compile the Cardiovascular Risk Factors that she checks for in to a checklist for you that you could print and take to your doctor at your next [...]
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FDA Puts New Warnings On Cholesterol Drugs
Written by Wellness Club on February 28, 2012 – 7:48 pm -Are You Still Taking A Statin For Your Cholesterol? Shame On You! FDA Puts New Warnings On Cholesterol Drugs By Nurse Mark It’s been all over the news headlines and the television news reports for the last couple of days – the FDA has finally had to acknowledge that statin drugs are [...]
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Scientific Conversion Units
Written by Wellness Club on February 18, 2012 – 4:11 pm -Laughter is Good Medicine: Some Truly Useful Information We all know that medicine uses a number of different units of measure – ways of measuring and describing things. There are European units of measure, metric units, English units, American units, and other “standard” and “non-standard” units of measure to be found – this is [...]
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