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When health care kills
- Health & Healing
- August 1, 2014
Medical mistakes are a leading cause of death in America. What’s changed in the last 15 years since a major study found that 100,000 patients died each year in hospitals from mistakes that were preventable?
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She Wanted To Be a Flower Girl, But She Needed a Wedding
- Making a Positive Difference
- July 24, 2014
Annabelle Earl is only 4 years old, and she has already turned a dream into reality. Ever since her babysitter’s daughter told her how much fun it is to be a flower girl at a wedding, she had her heart set on being one too. She confided her wish to her mom. But the only
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Legendary entertainer Elaine Stritch captured the hearts of audiences to the very end
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- July 21, 2014
Elaine Stritch was perhaps best known to audiences today for her role as Alec Baldwin’s one-of-a kind mom in the hit TV show 30 Rock. But the legendary actress, comedienne and singer had a career that spanned decades–taking her from theater to movies to television. As Joe Dziemianowicz wrote in the NY Daily News: “She left a showbiz legacy that no one can match.” He described the legendary entertainer, who died July 17th, as “feisty, fearless and relentlessly frank.”
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‘Boyhood’: A journey of poignant growth
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- July 21, 2014
It isn’t everyday that you read such a glowing review as the one USA Today movie critic, Claudia Puig, gives to director Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. She describes it this way: “One of the most extraordinary films in decades, this family drama is also one of the most ambitious in scope, having taken more than a decade to shoot.” Puig goes on to call Boyhood “an epic masterpiece.”
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Reclaiming Our (Real) Lives From Social Media
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- July 17, 2014
Nick Bilton, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times began thinking about how much time he was devoting each day to social media. He writes that what started out as “exciting and novel” began to take over his life and “consume every hour of my day.” So he asked himself: “At the end of the day, what do I have to show for it? Am I more enriched as a human being after a couple of hours spent on Facebook? More fulfilled from Pinterest? A deeper person from Instagram?”
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Eye test may be able to detect Alzheimer’s decades before onset
- Health & Healing
- July 17, 2014
Could an eye exam one day be used to determine who is at risk for Alzheimer’s? Beta amyloid proteins are usually found in the brain and can be an indicator of the disease, but a new study discovered that they also show up as bright dots during an eye exam.
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Shorter sleep may speed brain aging
- Health & Healing
- July 14, 2014
Are you getting enough sleep? A new study once again shows just how important sleep is for your memory and cognitive functioning. Lack of sleep can actually cause structural changes in the brain, which may accelerate a little faster with age.
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A Web Design Entrepreneur Has a Hit with Health Care Consumers
- Health & Healing
- July 14, 2014
Imagine being on the operating table and about to drift off from the anesthesia, when you hear your surgeon comment: “I’m excited I get to do this operation. I don’t get to do many of them.” It’s not exactly a confidence inducing moment. But that’s exactly what happened to Mitch Rothschild when he went in for surgery on his Achilles tendon.
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Life Lessons From Dad: Caring for an Elderly Parent
- Home & Family
- July 13, 2014
Taking care of an elderly parent in declining health can certainly be challenging. It can also be one of the most memorable and life enriching experiences you can have. Writer Dave Shiflett knows all too well how saddening and difficult it is. But the time he spent caring for his father, who struggled with dementia, helped him learn valuable lessons that shaped him into the person he is today.
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The Natural Ingredient You Should Ban from Your Diet
- Health & Healing
- July 13, 2014
Did you know that carrageenan, which is sometimes used as a thickener in yogurt, ice cream and cottage cheese, may cause inflammation and digestive problems? Lots of companies even use it in their organic and reduced fat products. But just because it’s a natural ingredient made from seaweed doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for you.
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Eye Protection From the Sun Especially Important for Kids
- Health & Healing
- July 13, 2014
Are you protecting your child’s eyes from the sun’s ultraviolet rays? Vision experts say that children’s sunglasses are an important protective measure, particularly because their young eyes are still developing and have a harder time filtering UV light. When young eyes are overexposed to the sun, the damage is cumulative and also permanent.
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Recruits’ Ineligibility Tests the Military
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- July 10, 2014
Would it surprise you to learn that a whopping 71 % of today’s youth 17 to 24 could not pass the requirements to serve in the U.S. military? That news comes directly from the Pentagon, which is concerned about what this could mean to our future fighting force.
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Starbucks to Subsidize Workers’ Online Degrees
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- June 25, 2014
Starbucks is becoming a trend setter in the best possible way. And it doesn’t have to do with their newest latte flavor or their fair-trade coffee bean programs. They are adding something new to the menu of their employees’ benefits program.
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How to Take Criticism Well
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- June 19, 2014
How well do you take criticism from your boss or colleagues? While negative feedback can be difficult to deal with, there is an art to receiving it in a positive way that allows you to learn from it and thrive in the workplace.
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What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades
- Home & Family
- June 19, 2014
Teaching children handwriting has been an accepted and integral part of early childhood education. But the Common Core Standards that many schools have now adopted no longer require that cursive handwriting be taught past kindergarten and first grade. Is that a good idea? Do we take a practice that has proved tried and true for many generations of students and dismiss it for 2nd graders? Would children benefit more in the long run by continuing to learn cursive handwriting as they’re being introduced to typing at a keyboard?
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