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Steward Health to cut some medical services in Sharon - WKBN.com

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How to Prevent Leg Cramps and Treat Them at Home - Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic

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Painful leg cramps aren't just annoying episodes of discomfort. Because they typically occur at night, they can wake you, interrupting necessary rest and sleep.   Advertising Policy Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy Complicating matters is the fact there are such a wide variety of causes for leg cramps, from overexertion to neurological conditions to circulation disorders. And there are idiopathic causes, too, which essentially means the causes are unknown.  But just because they're widespread and have so many causes doesn't mean there aren't good prevention and treatment options. Family medicine doctor Matthew Goldman, MD, walked us through the best options and also suggested some things to avoid.  Leg cramp prevention ...

How to treat a jellyfish sting - Chicago Tribune

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Jellyfish sting treatment According to the Cleveland Clinic, more than 150 million jellyfish stings are reported worldwide every year. Most do not require professional medical treatment, but stings from a venomous species — such as the Australian box jellyfish — can cause serious complications and even death if not treated promptly. Fortunately, box jellyfish are only found in certain regions and primarily in deeper waters. Most jellyfish species found on American beaches are non-lethal, but they can still deliver a very painful sting and trigger allergic reactions. Unpleasant encounters with jellyfish are challenging to avoid because they are notoriously difficult to see in the water unless they are large in size or large in population, as in a recognized jellyfish bloom. Otherwise, many swimmers only become aware of a jellyfish after they have already brushed against its tentacles. Dead jellyfish on the sand can still deliver a sting after contact. If you or someone ...

SOMETHING SPECIAL: MOTHER DELIVERS FIRST SET OF QUADRUPLETS ... - MENAFN.COM

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(MENAFN- Mid-East.Info) Quadruplet's pregnancies are very rare, 1 in 700,000 pregnancies Team of highly skilled professionals is required to deal with such premature and complicated cases Dubai: Doctors at reputable, Medcare Women & Children Hospital, have delivered the medical facility's first set of quadruplets. The 39-year-old Emirati mother, Roaya Tawakol, giving birth to four healthy babies, was under the care of Dr. Shiva Harikrishnan, Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Dr. Issam Abdalbari, Lead Neonatal Consultant and Dr. Marija Lukavac, Specialist Neonatologist. "Knowing that I was pregnant with four babies was great news, and I was rooted to Dr. Shiva. I was very confident that I will be in safe hands, in fact, it is magical that I had all my eight babies delivered by one doctor, Dr. Shiva. Now that they are born, I don't know what other way to describe it but to...

5 Best Osteopaths in Omaha, NE - Kev's Best

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Women in criminal justice: Elizabeth Best says being a judge is more than wearing the robe - Great Falls Tribune

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Above all, it's Elizabeth Best's experience that sets her apart as a Cascade County District Judge. And as someone who says she's as old as the dinosaurs (she's only 65, not 65 million), that experience is nothing to sneeze at. Kentucky-born, Best has been in Great Falls since she was 4 years old. Her dad was an Army doctor who was the first board-certified OB-GYN in Montana and delivered about 7,000 babies in Great Falls. Best's family arrived in Montana after her grandfather was kidnapped in Detroit by a group known as "The Purple Gang." This was during the Great Depression, but Best said the group thought all doctors must be rich even though her grandfather was working for chickens and bags of flour. "He got himself out of that fix by tearing a prescription sheet into the words of 'help,' and someone found him," Best said. "He decided that it would be safer to live somewhere else, so they moved out here sort of sight-unseen."...

Why I love being a primary care physician - Medical Economics

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When I read about the plight of primary care doctors and their widespread dissatisfaction with their profession, I remember Dr. William Vroom. As I was reading an old copy of the Medical Society of New Jersey Journal, I stumbled upon an obituary of a doctor I had met as a teenager. My life was changed forever by knowing this humble country doctor. When I read about the plight of primary care doctors and their widespread dissatisfaction with their profession, I remember Dr. William Vroom. Today's medical students no longer value primary care as a career choice in large part due to the perception of poor salaries and a lack of respect by fellow medical practitioners. I wonder what nonmedical people think when they read that as a group, physicians commanded the highest wages of any profession for the past 20 years? The starting salary of a newly minted family doctor is more than two hundred thousand dollars. Do primary care doctors work hard? No doubt, but so do UPS Drivers who work t...