Over 50? Keeping Up With Your Healthcare Needs

• What To Do To Prepare Your Home When You Need Foot Surgery

  27 January 2015

  After you sustain an injury to your foot or ankle, you find yourself sitting in the podiatrist's office awaiting the results of the many diagnostic tests you have just undergone. When you find out you need foot surgery to correct the problem, your heart drops. After all, you are a busy person, and you do not want to take the time out of your busy schedule to have and recover from surgery.

• The Blind Have Found A Way To Physically See Without Eyes

  22 January 2015

  What do you consider to be your most important of the five human senses? While taste, touch, hearing, and smell add much to the way humans discover and encounter the world around them, sight is a luxury sometimes taken for granted by those with fully functioning eyes. Within the animal kingdom, bats have discovered an interesting way to see clearly in the otherwise black night... and interestingly, they don't even need to use their eyes to see.

• Four Tips For Healthy Meal Planning

  21 January 2015

  You want to give your family a healthy, satisfying dinner everyday, but life often gets in the way. Rather than get overwhelmed by your daily to-do list and opt for another unhealthy fast food meal, treat your loved ones to a homecooked dinner. If you've prepped ahead of time and did a bit of meal planning, you should be able to have the nourishing food on the table in less than an hour.

• Hernias: Detection, Treatment, And Prevention

  19 January 2015

  Hernias are caused by a variety of factors, and hernias can be very hard to hide. These lumps can be unpleasant on your body, but it is important to learn what exactly a hernia is, what causes them, how to treat them, and how to attempt to prevent them from returning. What is a Hernia? A hernia is a lump that usually shows up on your abdomen and it appears because an organ in your body has found a way past the muscle tissue in front of it through an opening.

• Is Your Cold Becoming A Sinus Infection? An Urgent Care Clinic Can Help.

  15 January 2015

  A cold can seem to drag on forever, each day bringing a new dose of misery with a congested nose, headache, and more. But how do you tell when your head cold has morphed into a sinus infection? And what do you do to treat it? Cold Vs. Sinus Infection Colds and sinus infections (sinusitis) share a number of symptoms, including coughing, sneezing, fatigue, a sore throat and a runny or stuffy nose.

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