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The Impact of COPD on the Heart
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The Connection Between Diabetes and Brain Health
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Why Do I Sweat While Sleeping?
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Combatting a Hidden Health Crisis: Chronic Stress
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5 Tips to Help Adults Manage Their ADHD
Doctor prepares patient for a mammogram
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Mammograms: What Doctors Want You to Know
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What is the Connection Between ADHD and Anxiety Disorder?
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Understanding the Different Types of Breast Cancer
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How to Avoid Common Triggers of Psoriasis
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The Difference Between Chronic and Acute Pain
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What is Red Light Therapy?
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Doctor, I’m Concerned About Alzheimer’s Disease, What Can You Tell Me?
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Are There Health Benefits to Using a Sauna?
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Is there a Connection Between Sickle Cell Disease and Leukemia?
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Do I Have a Ragweed Allergy?
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Best Diet for Gastroparesis
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Can I Use Sunscreen If I Have Acne?
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Value Partnerships Spotlight: BMC2 Makes Michigan a Leader in Cardiovascular Care
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Tongue-Tie in Infants: How it Affects Feeding and When to Get Surgery
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What is Diabetes? Everything You Need to Know
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How Hot Weather Affects Chronic Conditions
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Sleep Series: Should I Be Using a Pillow?
Doctor examining patient skin moles with dermoscope
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What Happens During a Skin Cancer Screening?
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Chronic Skin Conditions in the Summer: Tips for Managing Through the Heat
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Can Bacteria in Your Reusable Water Bottle Make You Sick?
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Is Mouth Taping for Sleep Helpful or Harmful? 
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5 Health Numbers Every Woman Should Know
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What is Lupus?
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How to Help Aging Parents Deal With Chronic Diseases
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What is Eosinophilic Esophagitis?
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How to Prepare for Allergy Season
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Can Stress Cause Problems with My Gut?
A person with diabetes struggles with sore feet.
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How Diabetes Affects Your Feet
Senior woman having headache and sinusitis, sitting in her living room
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Sleeping Better with Allergies and Sinusitis
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Chronic Kidney Disease Signs, Symptoms, Risk Factors and Tests
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Understanding Medical Tests for Kidney Disease
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Why Alcohol Use is a Risk Factor for Chronic Conditions
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Risk of Colorectal Cancer is Higher in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
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Rochester Hills Cancer Survivor Discovers the Importance of Family Health History Knowledge
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How to Prepare for an Echocardiogram
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Best Steps for Preventing Heart Disease
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‘She Has Taught Me So Much:’ Michigan Mom Embraces Challenges of Parenting a Child Born with Severe Congenital Heart Defect
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Why Women Don’t Receive CPR as Frequently as Men
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EKG Tests: How to Prepare and What to Know
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Managing Asthma or ADHD? Why You May Need an Annual Physical
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Is Mouth Breathing While You’re Sleeping Bad?
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How Winter Affects the Body
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Is Cervical Cancer Hereditary?
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Beyond BMI: The Role of Weight in Health Outcomes
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Why Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure is Called the ‘Silent Killer’
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How to Prepare for an Exercise Stress Test
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What’s a Normal Blood Pressure?
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5 Bowel Issues I'd Never Ignore
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Survival Rates Increasing from Devastating Illnesses
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5 Things to Limit or Avoid When Living with Diabetes
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Family Health History: The Questions You Should Be Asking Your Loved Ones
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Michigan Woman Focusing on ‘Things That Matter’ While Continuing to Outlive Lung Cancer Prognosis 
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Health Disparities Affecting the American Indian/Alaska Native Population
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How to Talk to Someone with Alzheimer’s or Dementia
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Is Falling Asleep After Eating a Sign of Diabetes?
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How to Choose a Glucose Monitor
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Life-Threatening Bout with Diabetes Guides Michigan Teen Towards Advocacy
Jason Warzecha poses for a photo at the end of the Detroit Free Press Marathon
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Distance Runners with Diabetes Share How They Stay Fueled
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What is an A1C?
Woman walking with weights
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What You Can Do to Help Prevent Chronic Conditions  
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Is Cancer Contagious? 
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‘I’m Growing Back:’ Brownstown Breast Cancer Survivor’s Love of Gardening Helped Her Through Treatment 
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Understanding Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Living with Terminal Breast Cancer, Portland, Mich. Woman Spreads Hope to Others
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The Small Moments Mean More: Roseville Mom Recognizes the Beauty in Raising Child with Hypotonic Cerebral Palsy
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Blood Cancer Awareness Month Has Personal Meaning for Blue Cross Employees
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‘Faith, Prayer and Positivity:’ Marshall Woman Doesn’t Allow Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis to Bring Her Down
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Debunking Sickle Cell Disease Myths and Misconceptions
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The Impact of Childhood Obesity on Chronic Conditions in Adulthood
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Michigan Woman Living with Sickle Cell Disease Spreads Awareness in Hope of Helping Others
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How Eye Exams Can Detect Early Signs of Diabetes
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‘Keeping Her Alive is What Keeps Me Alive:’ Detroit Woman Shares Her Story to Spread Organ Donation Awareness in Detroit
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Living with Psoriasis: Effects on Mental Health and Stress
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What is the Diabetes Plate Method
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How Hot Weather Affects Arthritis
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What is Iron Overload?
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How Hot Weather Affects the Skin
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How Hot Weather Affects the Heart
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How Hot Weather Affects Individuals With Depression
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How Hot Weather Affects the Kidneys
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How Summer Heat Affects Individuals with Diabetes
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Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma
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The Psychology of Making a Big Lifestyle Change
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Is Leaky Gut Syndrome Real?
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The Connection Between Childhood Stress, Trauma and Chronic Illness
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‘I Was in Shock:’ How a Lansing Woman with Hyperthyroidism, Graves’ Disease Coped with her Conditions
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What is ALS?
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‘I Would Not Be Here:’ Organ Donors, Recipients Share Their Emotional Stories 
Woman sneezing
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Springtime Asthma and Allergy Awareness
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Why Eye Exams are So Important for Children with Diabetes
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Do You Need to See an Allergist?
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What is Fragile X Syndrome?
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Knowing the Difference Between Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia
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Kalamazoo Woman Perseveres Through Two Heart Attacks Caused by Uncommon Heart Condition
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Maternal Health: Heart Conditions During Pregnancy 
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