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December 18, 2024
With the holiday season finally here, many of us overindulge, leading to heartburn, acid reflux, and bloating. But when these symptoms occur regularly despite normal eating habits, you may have gastr...
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April 03, 2017
Washington, D.C., is a city full of runners. You can see it in the number of 5Ks, half marathons and other running events that the area plays host to every year. And you can see it in the number of pe...
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March 31, 2017
By MedStar Health Research Institute
Tetsuya Kawakita, MD, and Elizabeth Coviello, DO, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, have collaborated on a study of the effect of type 1 diabetes ...
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March 30, 2017
At least once a month, a patient asks if I’ve read Dave Barry’s column about getting a colonoscopy. The humor writer discusses how fear kept him from getting the procedure until he was 60 – a decade a...
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March 09, 2017
In January 2017, researchers reported that exercise is associated with a lower risk of death from metastatic colorectal cancer. Metastatic colorectal cancer is cancer of the colon or rectum that has s...
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February 17, 2017
Everyone knows somebody who never seems to get sick. But did you ever wonder why? It’s not because they are able to avoid exposure to germs. That’s nearly impossible! It’s because their immune system ...
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February 02, 2017
Odds are you know at least one person with diabetes. And the odds are even greater that you know one of the 86 million Americans with prediabetes. Yes, that’s 86 million people. The thing ...