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How鈥檚 Your Sexual Health Awareness?

Do you pay attention to your sexual health? Learn what a healthy relationship looks like and how to prevent, recognize and treat STIs.

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Podcast: Chronic Migraine

In this episode of Back to Health, Dr. Moises Dominguez discusses what patients should know about chronic migraine.

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Our First Focused Ultrasound Patient Comes Back for Seconds

A lot has happened for Alexandra Lebenthal in the past seven years. In 2016 she became our first patient treated with MRI-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) after the FDA approved it for essential tremor. Since then, she and her husband, Jay, have moved to a new apartment; two of their three children have graduated from college, and the third 鈥 a middle-schooler in 2016 鈥 is now a college sophomore. Most importantly, Alexandra has grown happily accustomed to having her dominant (left) hand be... Read More

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Surgical Treatment for Recurrent Diverticulitis

鈥疘f your diverticulitis doesn鈥檛 improve with treatment, or if it leads to complications such as those described above, you may need surgery to remove part of your colon.

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Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: What You Need to Know

Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is any bleeding that鈥檚 excessive, bothersome or outside what a woman would consider normal during menstruation, or any bleeding between periods.

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Safety Tips for Outdoor Grilling

鈥楾is the season to cook and eat outdoors, and that means grilling our faves, from chicken to fish, corn, skewered vegetables and hamburgers (whether the meat or vegetarian variety). But outdoor grilling comes with safety risks. After all, where there鈥檚 smoke there鈥檚 fire, and where there鈥檚 fire, there鈥檚 a need to protect ourselves from possible mishaps.

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Pool and Beach Safety Tips

From diving at the deep end of a public or private swimming pool to building castles in the sand, it鈥檚 time for fun in the sun鈥攁nd for staying safe at the pool as well as on the beach. Focusing on both fun and safety makes good sense鈥攅specially when it comes to your kids.

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Podcast: Treatments for Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS)

In this episode of Back to Health, Dr. Jai S. Perumal discusses what patients should know about treatments for Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

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Understanding, Surviving and Preventing Overdose

Overdose can happen at any age. With education, substance abuse experts and treatment, you can survive and avoid overdosing in the future.

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Medication-Overuse Headache (MOH)

When a headache sufferer uses headache medications too often鈥攅specially 鈥渁cute鈥 medications that aim to relieve an individual headache attack鈥攖hey may develop a disorder known as medication overuse headache (MOH).