Category: Your Care

Woman loads wood into a wood-burning fireplace indoors

January 19, 2024

Winter Indoor Air Quality Could Be Harming Your Health

Take these precautions with heat sources and humidifiers in your home.

Indoor Allergies, Your Care

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Provider uses tongue depressor to look in little girl's mouth while her mother sits in background

January 17, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Tonsils and Tonsillectomy

For some people, tonsils cause quality-of-life issues and should be removed.

Children's Health, Ear, Nose, and Throat Health, Surgery

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Image focused on a man running in place in a fitness class while others in the background do the same movement

January 8, 2024

Checklist: 7 Habits to Have a Healthier Life

A doctor shares tips for feeling better, having more energy and reducing disease risk.

Wellness, Your Care

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Multi-generational family gathers over an outdoor buffet

November 28, 2023

Food Poisoning or Stomach Flu? How to Tell the Difference

A doctor explains the two conditions and what to do about them.

Digestive Health, Primary Care, Your Care

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older woman sits at her kitchen table, analyzing the pill container in her hand

September 20, 2023

This Common Decongestant Isn’t Effective After All

It’s not a surprise to these doctors, who offer natural alternatives to phenylephrine products.

Cold and Flu, Pharmacology, Your Care

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middle-aged man sits on couch, gripping his stomach in pain

August 23, 2023

Q&A: How to Tell If You Have a Hernia

These bulges in the abdomen or groin can be serious, but they’re treatable.

Hernias, Surgery

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Liver donor recipient Meredith and her daughter and donor Kenan.

June 14, 2023

Giving Mom a Liver—and More Time Together

Living-donor liver transplants meet a dire need.

Organ Donation, Patient Stories, Transplants

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Two hikers in the woods, one hiker touches the knee of the other, presumably injured, hiker, who is sitting on the ground

June 7, 2023

How to Build a Summer First-Aid Kit

Follow this checklist to respond to common summer ailments.

Family Medicine, Your Care

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Grandma and aunt hold newborn baby while talking to the new mom

June 2, 2023

Make Sure Your Vaccinations Are Up to Date Before Meeting a Newborn

Simple shots can help you protect a baby from whooping cough, flu and COVID-19.

Babies, Maternal Health, Vaccines

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Grandfather and grandson smile while eating popsicles; grandson is sitting on edge of a pool, grandfather is in the pool.

May 26, 2023

7 Tips to Stay Hydrated Outdoors

Planning ahead is key to avoid dehydration.

Nutrition, Wellness, Your Care

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overhead shot of an athletic woman checking her smart watch in the swim lane of a pool

May 17, 2023

How to Cut Back on Your Daily Meds (But Talk to Your Doctor First)

Lifestyle changes may reduce your need for some drugs.

Medication, Your Care

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Mother wearing face masks hold her toddler as a provider gives the toddler a bandage on her arm

May 2, 2023

3 Things Parents Should Know About Bivalent Boosters for Young Chil...

Experts encourage parents to get their children vaccinated as COVID-19 cases continue to rise.

Babies, Coronavirus, Toddlers and Preschoolers, Vaccines

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