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Tips to stay healthy during air travel

For the most part, planes are a great way to go, experts say. But commercial air travel does come with some health baggage.

How reading can help prevent the summer slide

Here are a few ways you can encourage kids to read this summer while keeping the focus on fun and discovery.

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So much stress, even livesavers squirm

There are times when University Medical Center nurse Robin Parks wants to leave her patient’s room and howl in frustration.
“Some families just can’t handle the stigma of someone close to them having HIV, but pneumonia’s OK,” Parks says.

Hey kids, it’s OK to play. Fun, too

So now it’s come to this: We have to teach preschoolers that it’s good — and fun — to run and jump.
And, oh yes, we also must teach them to ask their parents if they can go out and play.

There’s no hiding from cancer

We were in the fifth grade when my friend David started feeling tired all the time. Instead of wanting to play ball, he wanted to sleep. He complained that his arms and legs hurt. David was dying of leukemia, a form of cancer.

Alzheimer’s has way of stealing moments

When she gave her husband a huge bear hug and told him how much she loved him, a breath escaped from his lips. “Are you sure he’s still not with us?” Jean Georges recalls asking a nearby medical attendant through her tears. A little more than a half hour earlier, Leonard Georges, had died from Alzheimer’s disease.

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