Stay safe while staying cool

What's the most dangerous season? The icy winter? The spring full of wild weather? It is actually summer. Not only can the heat get you, causing medical problems, but cooling off can also be very dangerous.

Local women to walk for awareness

 

Chances are you know somebody that has been affected by breast cancer. It is the second leading cause of death in women between 40 and 55 and more than 35 percent of the lives lost to the disease could have been prevented through early detection.

Liberal Views

 

I am amazed at the behavior people try to excuse.

What every parent should know about toilet training

Toddlers do not seem to mind wearing diapers. They like being Pamper-ed and Luv-ed. Who wouldn't?

Student gets taste of medicine

Christina Hufford, a rising senior at McIntosh High School, recently attended a National Medical Leadership Forum in Washington,DC.

Hearing aids benefit patients with Alzheimer's disease and their care givers

Problem behavior and hearing handicaps in patients with Alzheimer's disease and hearing loss were significantly reduced after they began wearing properly fitted hearing aids as part of a unique in-home study conducted by audiologists at the Center for Audiology of the UPMC Eye and Ear Institute and in the Communication Science and Disorders Program at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Northside Hospital studies new drug for sleep apnea patients

Northside Hospital's Sleep Medicine Institute is the only sleep center in Georgia selected to study the effects of Provigil, an FDA approved medication used to treat other sleep disorders, for improving alertness in sleep apnea patients using nasal continuous positive airway pressure.

HMC sponsors summer programs

Do you want to learn how to save lives? Henry Medical center has some suggestions that may improve your health and save lives.

Tension easers

With school beginning and fall activities on the horizon, Dan Phifer, Ph.D., of the Mental Health Association of Fayette County has some suggestions for handling the stress.

Testing Your Eye-Q

Do you take your vision for granted? A continuing awareness of your vision, and of signs which might indicate a problem, is the most obvious way to care for your eyesight.

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