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Inheritance Matters 2560 1706 AEPC Health

Inheritance Matters

What comes to mind when you hear “Inheritance”? For most of us, it’s cash, a house, maybe a family heirloom.  I used to think I hadn’t inherited much at all—other than the basics like eye color,…

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Many Cancer Patients Say Doctors Aren’t Honoring Their Treatment Desires

TUESDAY, Aug. 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Frequently, patients with advanced cancer simply want to be made as comfortable as possible as they wind down their final days. Doctors aren’t listening to their desires, a…

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Losing Pays, Sometimes

August 22 is no ordinary day on the calendar. It’s World Plant Milk Day, National Eat a Peach Day, National Pecan Torte Day, and even National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day. But stealing…

Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine Now Available for At-Home Use 1200 800 AEPC Health

Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine Now Available for At-Home Use

TUESDAY, Aug. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For the first time, people can get their annual flu vaccine without leaving the comfort of home. FluMist, a nasal spray flu vaccine made by AstraZeneca, is now…

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Device Eliminates Bladder Cancers in 4 of 5 Cases

MONDAY, Aug. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new implant eliminated bladder cancer in more than 4 out of 5 high-risk cases, new clinical trial results show. The miniature pretzel-shaped device, dubbed TAR-200, slowly releases…

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Beyond the Scales

Sam has heard it all. “Why are you wearing a long-sleeve shirt in 90-degree heat?” “How come you never go to the beach?” “Is your skin supposed to look like that?” Then there are the…

High Blood Pressure? Try An Indoor Air Purifier 1200 800 AEPC Health

High Blood Pressure? Try An Indoor Air Purifier

TUESDAY, Aug. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks fighting high blood pressure might receive some help from a household air purifier, a new study says. Even in areas with relatively low air pollution levels, using…

Center Court, Center Stage 2560 1707 AEPC Health

Center Court, Center Stage

I’ll be honest—tennis was never my sport. I took it in college just to check off a health requirement, and my lack of hand-eye coordination quickly proved I wasn’t headed for any winning matches. Still,…

Are Some ‘Low-Grade’ Prostate Cancers More Deadly Than Thought? 1200 800 AEPC Health

Are Some ‘Low-Grade’ Prostate Cancers More Deadly Than Thought?

FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men diagnosed with what are known as Grade Group one (GG1) prostate tumors are often told they don’t require treatment, only “watchful waiting,” because GG1 cancers are at…

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Forever, and Ever

Who Wants to Live Forever? Queen once asked the question. Alphaville, Bob Dylan, and Rod Stewart all sang about wanting to be Forever Young. Just the other day, Forever Young became the soundtrack to a strange coincidence. After…

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Doctor’s Advice Can Reduce Opioids Taken After Surgery

MONDAY, July 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Some wise counsel in advance can reduce the amount of opioid painkillers a patient takes after orthopedic surgery, new clinic trial results show. Knee surgery patients were much…

Pancakes, Please 2560 1914 AEPC Health

Pancakes, Please

This year marks the 40th anniversary of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, the classic children’s book by Laura Numeroff.  Years ago, I read it to my son more times than I can count—along with…

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GI Cancers On The Rise Among Younger Adults

MONDAY, July 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — GI cancers among people 50 and younger are rising at an alarming rate, increasing in the U.S. faster than any other type of early onset cancer, according to…

Eggs Guilt-Free For ‘Bad’ Cholesterol, Experiment Shows 1200 799 AEPC Health

Eggs Guilt-Free For ‘Bad’ Cholesterol, Experiment Shows

MONDAY, July 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new egg study has produced sunny-side-up results for the oft-maligned breakfast staple. Eggs are commonly thought to increase risk of heart disease by raising people’s cholesterol levels.…

Token Tales: Credit’s Past, Medical Debt’s Present 2560 1706 AEPC Health

Token Tales: Credit’s Past, Medical Debt’s Present

When you hear the word token, what comes to mind? Cryptocurrency? A subway pass? Maybe a security key for your computer? Turns out, tokens also have a long history in consumer credit — long before…

Study Finds No Link Between Vaccine Aluminum and Health Problems 1200 800 AEPC Health

Study Finds No Link Between Vaccine Aluminum and Health Problems

TUESDAY, July 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new study of more than 1.2 million people found no link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and long-term health problems, including autism, asthma or autoimmune diseases. The…

The Ayes Have It —Or Maybe It’s the Eyes 2560 1875 AEPC Health

The Ayes Have It —Or Maybe It’s the Eyes

The ayes have it—or maybe it’s the “eyes.”  And these eyes come in many forms. Sure, there are the eyes we blink and tear up with emotion. But eyes are everywhere: in sewing kits (hook…

Many Older Adults Taking Daily Aspirin Despite Tighter Guidelines 1200 675 AEPC Health

Many Older Adults Taking Daily Aspirin Despite Tighter Guidelines

MONDAY, July 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 1 in 6 older adults takes daily aspirin to prevent heart disease, even though stricter guidelines say it’s not for everyone, a new study says. Worse, nearly…

Don’t Forget 2560 1701 AEPC Health

Don’t Forget

Now here’s something surprising—an early edition of The Download. Like millions across the country, I’m logging off for a bit to celebrate the Fourth of July! Whether on water or land, Americans have their own special…

Medicaid, Medicare Don’t Adequately Cover Addiction Treatment, Study Says 1200 801 AEPC Health

Medicaid, Medicare Don’t Adequately Cover Addiction Treatment, Study Says

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Opioid addicts covered by Medicare and Medicaid are less likely to receive the mental health and substance use treatment that they need, a new study says. Addicts with…

Swallowed by Mistake, Remembered for a Reason 2011 1491 AEPC Health

Swallowed by Mistake, Remembered for a Reason

What was I thinking? Clearly, I was not. I was feeding my Pembroke Corgi, Watson—who’s quite certain he’s just as royal as the ones Queen Elizabeth kept—while half-listening to a podcast previewing the next day’s…

Stem Cell Treatment May Free Some With Type 1 Diabetes From Insulin 1200 800 AEPC Health

Stem Cell Treatment May Free Some With Type 1 Diabetes From Insulin

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A single infusion of a new stem cell-based treatment may have helped 10 out of 12 people with severe type 1 diabetes stop using insulin, researchers report. The…

Mercury Is Rising – Again 2560 1700 AEPC Health

Mercury Is Rising – Again

The stories of Roman gods often seem timeless. Take Mercury—the god of commerce, communication, and, curiously, thieves. With his winged sandals and helmet, he zipped between worlds, overseeing the movement of goods, people, and ideas.…

COVID Vaccine Protects Against Kidney Damage During Infection 1200 800 AEPC Health

COVID Vaccine Protects Against Kidney Damage During Infection

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Kidney damage is common during a severe case of COVID-19, but vaccination appears to protect people against this life-threatening side effect, a new study says.  Unvaccinated COVID patients…

Hear the Roar 2560 1696 AEPC Health

Hear the Roar

I used to believe no movie was worth watching more than once—time is a scarce commodity, after all. Then I had a child. That rule didn’t just bend—it shattered. My son’s early obsession with The Lion…

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Racial Disparities Driving Emergency Surgery Costs

TUESDAY, June 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Emergency surgeries are gnawing away at U.S. health care spending, with racial disparities fueling the bill, a new study says. Emergency surgeries cost about 33% more than planned…

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Seize the Day

Today marks the anniversary of the D-Day invasion — June 6, 1944 — when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in one of the most daring and pivotal operations of World War II. It…

Fluoride Ban Could Create Cavities For 1 Of Every 3 U.S. Kids 1200 799 AEPC Health

Fluoride Ban Could Create Cavities For 1 Of Every 3 U.S. Kids

MONDAY, June 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Removing fluoride from the U.S. water supply could result in more than 25 million more decayed teeth in children and teenagers within five years, a new study warns.…

Believe It or…Rethink It? 2560 1875 AEPC Health

Believe It or…Rethink It?

Believe it or not? What comes to mind? Probably Ripley’s Believe It or Not! — a collection of the weird, wild, and wonderfully unbelievable. Meet Ripley: The King of the Bizarre Robert Ripley was a…

U.S. Had 1.5 Million Excess Deaths Following Pandemic 1200 800 AEPC Health

U.S. Had 1.5 Million Excess Deaths Following Pandemic

TUESDAY, May 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Excess deaths in the United States have continued to mount following the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an early demise for hundreds of thousands, a new study says. More…

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