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Asthma During Pregnancy
Read more: Asthma During PregnancyMany people may not be aware that asthma is one of our country’s most common diseases and it does not just affect children. In fact, every day 27,000 adults miss work due to asthma, with 4,700 heading to the Emergency Department due to an attack. For women who are pregnant and also dealing with the…
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Smoking & Lung Cancer: How to Get Screened
Read more: Smoking & Lung Cancer: How to Get ScreenedAre you a smoker or use tobacco and scared about lung cancer? Or have you quit, but still worry about the toll on health? According to the American Cancer Society, in 2012, about 42 million Americans used tobacco products – ranging from cigarettes, to cigars, e-cigarettes, hookahs, and chews or spit tobacco. Lung cancer is…
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10 Simple Health Tips for Men
Read more: 10 Simple Health Tips for MenJune is Men’s Health Month and June 15th-21st is Men’s Health Week. At Hillcrest Hospital South, we encourage men to take charge of their health by actively preventing disease and illness through maintaining a healthy diet. Stephanie Harris, MS, RD/LD, the lead clinical dietician at Hillcrest Hospital South, provided us with some simple health tips…
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Wounds That Don’t Heal – Advanced Wound Care
Read more: Wounds That Don’t Heal – Advanced Wound CareIf you or a loved one have ever suffered from a wound that does not show improvement within four weeks of treatment or requires daily treatment and dressings, it should be referred to a wound specialist for further assessment and treatment. Chronic wounds affect nearly six million patients in America, costing the US health care…
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Making Cesarean Deliveries Special for Mom and Baby – One Mother’s Gentle C-Section Story
Read more: Making Cesarean Deliveries Special for Mom and Baby – One Mother’s Gentle C-Section StoryLacey Marsh woke early in the morning on December 2, 2014 and knew it was time. “We got to Hillcrest at 3 a.m. and went straight to triage,” she recalls. Lacey was indeed in labor and admitted to Labor and Delivery at the Peggy V. Helmerich Women’s Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center shortly after…
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Dietary Guidelines for 2015 – What’s In and What’s Out
Read more: Dietary Guidelines for 2015 – What’s In and What’s OutRecently released Dietary Guidelines of 2015 have Hillcrest South dietitians weighing in and providing their expert opinions for the key takeaways for what’s in, what’s out and what’s neutral this year. Food industries, they say, fight tooth and nail to make sure any new recommendations continue to keep them in a positive light. Any reduction in intake…
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Hillcrest Partners with Tulsa Roughnecks
Read more: Hillcrest Partners with Tulsa RoughnecksThe Tulsa Roughnecks and Hillcrest HealthCare System recently announced a major partnership between the two organizations. In the agreement, Hillcrest HealthCare System will be the Official Medical Provider of the Roughnecks soccer team as well as the presenting sponsor of the team’s inaugural 2015 season. “Today is an important day for our new soccer team,”…
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Budget-Friendly Nutrition
Read more: Budget-Friendly NutritionBusy lives, tight budgets and rising prices at the grocery store may have many families choosing what they think are the cheaper and faster food choices, costing their family nutritional balance in the meantime. Before you pick up the phone to dial in dinner or head towards another drive-thru, consider these tips from The Centers for…
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When it comes to reading food labels, what’s most important?
Read more: When it comes to reading food labels, what’s most important?When making better food choices for you and your family, it may not always be clear when roaming grocery aisles. When you pick up a box of cereal or can of vegetables, you’ll find a nutrition facts label on the package. You may not think to read all those tiny numbers; but taking a few…
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New Cardiac Catheterization Lab Opens at Hillcrest Hospital Claremore
Read more: New Cardiac Catheterization Lab Opens at Hillcrest Hospital ClaremoreAdvanced cardiology care is now available in Claremore. Hillcrest Hospital Claremore has opened a new cardiac catheterization lab, which began seeing patients in January. A cardiac catheterization is a minimally-invasive procedure where a catheter (or very thin tube) is guided through an artery and up into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This procedure can be used for diagnostic purposes, such…
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