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Reduce Your Stroke Risk: Live Healthy

Comprehensive Stroke Center Team
May 3, 2023

A stroke occurs whenever the brain is damaged by a diseased artery supplying blood to that part of the brain. What is the average age for a stroke? The majority of strokes happen to people who are 65 or older. However, the...

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Spring Into New Habits 2025 Style

Brown University Health Blog Team
March 22, 2025

Spring is a time of new beginnings. And that doesn’t only apply to the trees and flowers, but to our lifestyles too. The...

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Life's Essential 8: Improve Your Heart Health and More

Karen Aspry, MD
February 18, 2025
For decades, the American Heart Association was focused on reducing the risk factors for preventable cardiovascular...
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Overactive Bladder and Urinary Incontinence

Meredith C. Wasserman, MD
November 14, 2024

Did you know urinary incontinence is more common than asthma? Urinary incontinence, or involuntary leakage of urine, can...

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Dr. Google and Online Symptom Checkers

Olivier Gherardi, DO
September 14, 2024

Calling Dr. Google! Looking up your symptoms online can be helpful when in search of a diagnosis, but it can also be...

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Fish Oil Supplements and Heart Health: What You Need to Know

Wenliang Song, MD, MTR, FNLA
August 6, 2024

Fatty acids known as Omega-3s are part of the " healthy fats" family and have been shown for years to improve heart...

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Live Longer and Healthier with the Blue Zone Lifestyle

Brown University Health Blog Team
July 23, 2024

We all hope for a long and healthy life. That’s exactly what is happening for the people who live in certain areas of...

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Topics of Interest

Have You Noticed You’re Forgetting Things?

Jonathan Drake, MD
March 29, 2023

As we age, the body changes in many ways. Some things we think of as normal signs of aging, such as the appearance of...

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Prepare Your Home Before Joint Replacement Surgery

Prepare Your Home Before Joint Replacement Surgery

Heidi Antosh, MS, OTR/L, and Liz Clegg, MS, OTR/L BCPR
June 5, 2019

Joint replacement surgery has evolved over the years. Technology and techniques have improved, outcomes are better, and...

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What Is a Living Will?

Brown University Health Blog Team
May 23, 2019

An often-overlooked part of end-of-life planning is setting up a living will, sometimes referred to as an advance...

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Upcoming Events & Recent News

May
20
2025

Understanding Selective Mutism: Helpful Tips and Strategies

This presentation aims to provide an overview of selective mutism (SM). It will review considerations in the diagnosis of SM, including diagnostic criteria, differences in presentations, and myths about this disorder. The presentation will also ...
May
20
2025

Understanding How Trauma Impacts Latinx Families

This presentation will be in Spanish.Join the The Brown University Health Community Health Institute and Temas Familiares on Tuesday, May 20 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. for a free, virtual workshop on ...