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While whole-body massage therapy offers many documented health benefits,  from  stress  relief  to  improved circulation and flexibility, facial treatments and facial massage can also provide many unique health benefits as well. In addition to counteracting the effects of pollutants and sun exposure on your skin, facials can help with improving the texture and hydration of the skin. Regular facials help …

By Blake W. Kirkpatrick In the last 20 to 30 years, as tax laws became more and more complicated many people’s estate plans also became more and more complex as a result. For many, estate planning required sitting down with their estate planning attorney to construct a plan to deal with the applicable estate and gift tax considerations with the …

By midlife more than fifty percent of the population experiences significant episodes of low back or lumbar pain. Oftentimes, chronic low back pain leads patients to surgery of the lumbar spine. Unfortunately, ten to forty percent of the lumbosacral spine surgeries done for disabling pain culminate with recurrent or persistent pain. The numbers are so overwhelming that this condition has …

By Yollo Wellness That moment when we wake up and look at ourselves in the mirror and realize “ I’m beyond a dapple of this and that on my face.”  The fact that I’m in my late 40’s is showing on my face. It’s not so much that I’ve got deep wrinkles, I don’t feel like the Grand Canyon quite …

What will it do to my Cholesterol? Throughout time fad diets have been a staple of the American weight loss industry it seems that almost everyone is looking for the next magical way to lose weight and lower cholesterol.  In response to that need the marketplace has a new and improved fad or medical theory diet to sell to us …

By Virginia Carnahan, APR, CPRC Director of Development Most people are surprised to learn that more men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year than women are diagnosed with breast cancer!  Think about that for a moment.  How many women do you know who have battled breast cancer?  Seems like every family, every neighborhood, every group of friends has at …

Sleep, especially REM sleep, plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety.  REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is a very important part of our sleeping pattern. This stage of sleep is the most important phase …

What you need to know? By Dr. John P. Landi, MD, FACS, RPVI, RPhS, Diplomate of The American Board of Phlebology – Varicose veins and spider veins are very common problems affecting over thirty million people throughout the United States. Varicose veins are large and ropey in appearance and usually appear as bulging in the leg anywhere from the thigh to …

By Peter Curcione, D.O. Medicine and science are constantly evolving.  Technology in all fields of medicine are ever improving. With the growth and advances in computer science the changes happen much more rapidly.  In the coarse of my practice as an Orthopedic Surgeon, I see these advances on a regular basis.  Some make no sense, others may improve things very …

By Suhail A. Khoury, M.D., F.A.C.P., Ph.D. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a multi-system disease characterized by chronic elevation of blood glucose. The etiology of DM is either related to lack of insulin production (Type 1, or juvenile DM 1) or to the lack of response to insulin (Type 2, or adult onset DM 2). This summary is limited to DM …