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August is National Immunization Month! Be safe- be sure you and your children are immunized to help prevent potentially deadly diseases that are easily preventable! National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is an annual observance held in August... read more

Although cholesterol lowering medication clearly reduces heart attacks and strokes, little has been published about its’ effectiveness for patients over 80 years old. Current use focuses on “primary prevention” (prevent the initial occurrence... read more

As our population ages, more families are left coping with a loved one who has been diagnosed with dementia. Recent statistics indicate that 1 in 8 adults over the age of 65 has at least some findings of dementia, and the prevalence rate balloons t... read more

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new rules for how health care payments will occur. The final rules are yet to be released despite a 2017 program start date. http://www.athenahealth.com/blog/2016/05/06/now-that-... read more

For the past 25 years, doctors have been told to treat the underappreciated epidemic of chronic pain in our country. The main hospital certification agency and others have promoted pain rating scales as the “5th vital sign”, added onto the tradi... read more