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Your Health
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Our education programs are designed to help members dealing with multiple conditions, new diagnoses, serious illnesses or hospitalizations. From assistance managing a chronic illness to simply maintaining good health, we support your wellness goals with the tools and expertise to help you achieve them.
How Effective is Your Control of Asthma?
Asthma is a common chronic lung disease that can make it difficult to breathe. Although there is no cure for asthma, those with the condition can live healthy, active lives if their asthma is under control.
How to Help a Child Who is Overweight
Baby fat is something children are supposed to outgrow, not grow into. Obesity is a critical and growing health problem in the U.S., and it starts at a young age. One in every six children and teenagers is obese (18.5 percent). That’s more than three times the rate found in the early 1970s.
Keeping Bay Area Pollen Season at Bay
Are your seasonal allergies getting worse? You’re not alone.
If it feels like your allergy-induced runny nose and red-rimmed eyes are getting worse each year — and lasting longer — you're not imagining things.
Childhood Immunizations: What They are and Why Your Child Needs Them
A healthy start begins with on-time vaccinations.
Has this ever happened to you? On the day she’s supposed to get her shots, your infant wakes up with the sniffles. You or your doctor decides to hold off on the vaccination. The opportunity slips by and, for one reason or another, your child never gets that shot.
HPV Vaccine: A Shot at Preventing Cancer
Imagine if you could protect your child against cancer. Turns out, you can.
Almost 80 million Americans are currently infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted virus that can cause genital warts and cancers of the cervix, vagina, vulva and penis, among other areas of the body. In fact, almost all men and women are exposed to it as some point in their lives.
Food Facts and Myths
Some common questions, and surprising answers, about nutrition
Essential Eye Care for Diabetes
Most people who have diabetes suffer nothing more than minor eye disorders related to the disease. However, they do have a higher risk for blindness than other people, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
If you have diabetes, you can take steps to reduce your risk for vision loss or blindness. Diabetes can cause the following eye disorders:
Colorectal Cancer - The Facts About Screening, Prevention and More
Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States — and the third most common cause of cancer deaths among men and women combined. About 100,000 cases of colon cancer, and just under 45,000 cases of rectal cancer, are diagnosed per year.
Dr. Bao Tran: Answering Some Common Questions About Heart Health
Did you know someone dies of cardiovascular disease (CVD) every 40 seconds?
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