Hydration in Summer

Landscapers, construction workers, kids at camp or vacationers at the beach. If you're outside in summer heat, make sure you stay hydrated.

               
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Fact or Fiction?

With jellyfish showing up in the waters of Long Island Sound already this summer, should you include a bottle of vinegar in your beach bag to treat a jellyfish sting?

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Did you know…

The incidence of skin cancer among young American women is dramatically on the rise.


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Medical Terms

A Quickie Primer

It's All Greek to Me!

Many medical terms have Greek (and Latin) roots:

BRONCH - air passages in
the lungs

-ITIS = inflammation
-ALGIA = pain

Therefore... Bronchitis is an inflammation in the air passages of the lung;

Dermatitis is an "inflammation" of the skin;

Myalgia is "pain" in the muscles;  "my" from the
Greek word for muscle.

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