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Foods That Can Fool With Your Meds
“Take With Food” is common advice with medicines, but it may not be the healthiest advice. Certain foods and drinks can alter the effect of your medications.
Build a Brain Gym With These Easy Cognitive Exercises
Explore ways to boost your brain health with daily cognitive exercises. Stimulating your brain improves your brain function and reduces your risk of dementia.
Advance Care Planning Make Your Healthcare Wishes Known
Whether you’re living with a serious illness or in the best shape of your life, advance care planning is important for everyone. It’s an effective way to document and communicate your healthcare wishes.
6 Self-Care Tips for Men
Discover six self-care practices men can follow to boost their mental, spiritual and emotional health. Men need self-care just as much as anyone.
Heart Health and Exercise How to Safely Spring Into Action
Did you know just 75-150 minutes of weekly exercise can help boost heart health? Learn cardiologist-approved ways to get started.
Why Electronic Medical Records Just Got Better
Learn how a recently passed law provides patients with greater access to personal health information in their electronic medical record.
Ticks Avoid Misery in Missouri
As the Midwest grows hotter because of climate change, tick-related diseases are on the rise in Missouri. Prevention is your best defense.
Never Too Old to Be Loved
People who foster senior dogs and cats open their homes and hearts to give these animals a second chance. Fostering a pet also has physical and emotional health benefits.
The Man’s Guide to Urinary Incontinence
Read about the common causes and symptoms of urinary incontinence in older men. The loss of bladder control can affect daily life, but it is often treatable.
Dysphagia Doesn’t Have to Be a Hard Pill to Swallow
Read about common signs of chronic difficulty with swallowing, or dysphagia. Swallow therapy with an NKCH speech-language pathologist, or SLP, can help.
Salon Professionals Bring Added Line of Skin Cancer Defense
Salon professionals see clients up close. They may be the first to spot the signs of skin cancer on your ears, eyelids, feet, lips, nails, palms and scalp.
Medical Weight Loss Explore the Benefits
Start your medical weight loss program with the Total Weight Loss Center. Our bariatrician personalizes your plan using the nonsurgical weight loss methods.