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![Keeping your mind]()
Keeping your mind
At first, only her family knew something was wrong. Jenny, whose last name is withheld to maintain her privacy, had started asking the same questions again and again about simple, everyday things. Unaccustomed to hearing the retired social worker forget…
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![Empathy by design: Healing the body while caring for the mind]()
Empathy by design: Healing the body while caring for the mind
Imagine walking along the sidewalk on your way to work, and you see a homeless man jangling a cup with handful of change in it. What do you do? “The sympathy response would be to toss him a coin and…
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![5 steps to guard against dementia]()
5 steps to guard against dementia
We all hope that medicine will find the golden cure to erase the threat of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease from our lives. Fortunately, while research to do exactly that is happening, there already are plenty of steps you can take to keep your brain healthy.…
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![Peanut butter test may detect alzheimer’s]()
Peanut butter test may detect alzheimer’s
Peanut butter – crunch or creamy — may not be exactly your first thought as a game changer in Alzheimer’s research. But it may well be, according to researchers at the University of Florida who conducted the peanut butter smell test hoping…
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The color of pee
Human urine has been a useful tool of diagnosis since the earliest days of medicine. The color, density, and smell of urine can reveal much about the state of our health. Here, for starters, are some of the things you…
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![3 signs your bladder isn’t working]()
3 signs your bladder isn’t working
How your bladder functions every day can tell you a lot about your overall health. How often you urinate during the day and during the night, the color of your urine and whether you can “hold it” all provide clues…
