Understanding Outpatient Surgery
More than 60 percent of elective surgery procedures in the United States are now performed as outpatient surgeries.
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Your Complete Guide to Being Well and Staying Healthy
Allergy Zone
Understand what allergies are all about as wells their impact on people with asthma. Discover ways allergies are treated and ways people with allergies can manage their lives to decrease their sensitivity and exposure to allergens.
Hepatitis Zone
Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver most commonly caused by one of several viruses. More than 150,000 hepatitis infections occur annually in the United States, but the different viruses produce different outcomes for these infections.
Skin Health Zone
The skin is your body's largest organ. It protects you against bacteria, viruses, dirt, wind, heat and cold. And it serves as a "window" to the body, alerting doctors when something is wrong.
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A Runner's Guide to Avoiding Injury
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Build your mileage slowly; don't increase your weekly distance by more than 10 percent.
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Follow hard days with easy recovery days.
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Don't increase your mileage every week. Plan an easy week into your training schedule every so often.
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Cross-train consistently. Not only walk or run, but also swim, bicycle, in-line skate or stair-climb.
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Your risk of an overuse injury increases dramatically as you approach 40 to 50 miles per week. Exercise caution when covering such distances.
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After you compete in a race, do easy workouts for as many days as there were miles in the race.