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Grilling Can be Bad for Your Health

June 30th, 201808 By Dr. Glen Ellis TriceEdneyWire.com If well-done burgers or charred hotdogs are your thing, you might want to read this: Regularly consuming well-done or charred...

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Finally, Medicaid Expansion – And One Lady Is So Thankful

June 7th, 2018017 After four years of Republican resistance, the Virginia General Assembly voted May 30 to expand Medicaid eligibility to 400,000 low income residents to receive...

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Good Reasons To Drink More Water!

May 25th, 201809 When we think about our bodily health, we normally think of exercise and diet. These are important factors, but what may be the most important factor to our health of...

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Health: Dialysis, Infections, and Hepatitis

May 18th, 2018018 By definition, hemodialysis is pumping a patient’s blood through a filtration device to remove toxins that failing kidneys can no longer handle, and then pumping it...

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Health: Heart Failure Diagnosis Not a Death Sentence

May 10th, 2018013 The words can be misleading. The heart is a muscle that pumps blood to the other organs of the body, but “Heart Failure” (HF) doesn’t mean the heart has stopped...

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Health: Mental Illness, Stigma, and Blacks

May 4th, 2018014 Since 1949, the month of May has been recognized as Mental Health Month. With African-Americans leading the country with troubling statistics in areas like...

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Advocate Assists DAV Who Served In Three Wars, Yet Denied VA Benefits

April 27th, 2018041 In the wake of a newly appointed Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Ronny L. Jackson, and the firing of Secretary David Shulkans by President Trump in March 2018, it will...

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Health: All About the Pancreas

April 26th, 2018024 Like many of you, more and more we are hearing about family, friends and loved ones facing a sudden issue with the Pancreas.

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Health: Childbirth is Killing Black Mothers

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Family Patriarch Joe Jackson Terminally Ill with Cancer