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The People’s Health Center provides affordable, comprehensive, accessible, culturally appropriate, cost-effective primary health care. The Center will serve people of the Lincoln, Nebraska area, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care to improve their overall health status.

Packing up the kids for a road trip can be difficult. Making sure they are stocked with things to do to keep them occupied can be a tough battle on its own. If car sickness, a common type of motion sickness, is thrown into the equation, road trips can be even more of a struggle
Car sickness occurs when the brain receives mismatching information from the ears, eyes and nerves in the extremities. The results of this sensation are upset stomach, fatigue and,…

(KUTV) Katrina Jensen from Intermountain Moms talked about babies and breastfeeding.Breastfeeding has powerful benefits for your baby. Intermountain supports breastfeeding. Make sure to talk to your health care provider before your baby is born if you have

When you and your doctor work together as a team, you'll get better health care. Try the following tips to find a doctor who’s right for you.

At OSF HealthCare, we are transforming how we provide your health care so that more services are available to you when you need them.

Last updated: May 22, 2016
By Carolyn Sayre for Summit Medical Group
Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. However, many of these deaths can be prevented with the proper precautions. Seth Jawetz, MD, a cardiologist at the Live Well Heart Failure Clinic at Summit Medical Group, offers ten tips to keep your heart healthy
1. Understand your risk
People who have high blood pressure or cholesterol, diabetes, are overweight, or have a history…

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IXIARO® is a vaccine indicated for the prevention of disease caused by Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus for people 2 months of age and older. 12
IXIARO® is a vaccine indicated for the prevention of disease caused by Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus for people 2 months of age and older. 12
IXIARO® has a well-established safety profile
and protective immune…

The world’s population is increasing, so are the diseases. As a result, the healthcare costs continue to rise. However, the diagnosis and treatment processes are rapidly changing, thanks to Big Data that has launched healthcare into a new frontier. It’s a term of data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, trends, or other […]

See the amazing photographs from What to Expect author Heidi Murkoff's recent trip to a health care facility in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone.

The next time you go to see your health care provider for an upper respiratory illness a cough or cold don't assume you'll get a prescription for an antibiotic.

MILWAUKEE -- The kids are back in school -- which means packing school lunches is once again a daily chore. And somethings, the same old peanut butter and jelly sandwich and apple get boring. Registered dietitian, Brooke Moersfelder with Aurora Health Care, joins Real Milwaukee to help you pack satisfying and safe school lunches.

OK, now that you've calmed down some from the initial excitement, wiped out the pregnancy shelf at your local bookstore, and made a down payment on a new maternity wardrobe, it's time to focus on the most important thing here (and no, it's not the wallpaper pattern for the nursery): your health and the baby's health. Your first assignment: Pick up the phone and call your…

The need for healthcare is a continuing demand. It’s not just the working class people that need medical and healthcare but also the senior citizens as well. Indeed a lot of people are not feeling …

Medical malpractice refers to professional negligence by a health care provider that leads to substandard treatment, resulting in injury to a patient.

This week (March 3-9) is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. Patient safety is priority number one at Cincinnati Children’s every day of the year, but you, our patient families, also play a critical role in making hospital stays as safe as possible
In collaboration with children’s hospitals across the country, we’d like to share with you these six things you can do when visiting the hospital with your child to help us provide the safest possible care:
BE A PATIENT ADVOCATE FOR YOUR…

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In these days of changing health care, it’s tough to be a patient. It’s also tough to be a doctor. I’ve had the opportunity to be both recently, and trust me: they’re both difficult paths to walk down.
We owe it to ourselves to find out the absolutely best way to keep ourselves healthy, right? Here are some easy steps based on my experience on both sides of the fence.
1. Be up front with your doctor.
Be honest if that…

Research Story Tip: Heart Disease Gaining on Cancer as a Major Cause of Death in Young Women, Say Researchers
03/31/2021
A recent nationwide study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers revealed women younger than 65 are dying from heart disease at an increased rate compared with past years. Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain images
It’s no secret that women tend…