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New Blood Test Is Able to Detect Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
March 16, 2023
New Blood Test Is Able to Detect Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
Every 3.2 seconds someone in the world is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease – a debilitating form of dementia that deteriorates cognitive skills and memory.  Unfortunately, cognitive health tests are usually conducted once symptoms have begun. Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t early detection… See more
Is It a Food Allergy or an Intolerance? 
January 7, 2022
Is it a food allergy or something else?
Food usually brings people together in friendship, in celebration, even in sorrow. But it can also be a major source of stress.  For some, a single bite of the wrong food can mean a trip to the emergency room. This is called anaphylaxis, a classic food allergy reaction. For others, eating a meal… See more
What You Can Learn from Food Allergy Tests 
January 7, 2022
food-allergy-testing
You know your body, and you know when something isn’t right: a rash you can’t explain, lightheadedness, nausea or diarrhea for no obvious reason. Sometimes these symptoms appear after a meal. But other times, they appear at seemingly random times.  One possible explanation might surprise you: Food… See more
Prostate-Specific Antigen Test Versus MyProstateScore
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
July 15, 2021
Cancer screener

Study Suggests New Prostate Cancer screening Is More Accurate than PSAs

For the last 25 years, doctors have used the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test along with digital rectal exams (DRE) to screen for prostate cancer. This approach, to say the least, has been controversial. 

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New Guidelines Recommend Earlier Colorectal Screenings
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
June 18, 2021
Colorectal Screenings
For years, doctors recommended patients begin colorectal screenings at age 50. However, in 2018, the American Cancer Society (ACS) updated their colorectal screening recommendations to begin at 45. And now, the… See more
How & When to Get Screened for Cancer
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
February 12, 2021
prevent cancer

How to Get Screened for Cancer & When: Talk to Your PCP

“You have cancer” are three words you never want to hear. The dreaded disease is associated with grueling treatments and claims more than 600,000 American lives each year. But there is some good news: United States cancer deaths… See more
Baby Boomers - Have You Been Screened for Hepatitis Yet?
By Janet Tiberian, MA, MPH, CHES
April 17, 2017
Hepatitis C and Baby Boomers
Hepatitis C is a global epidemic. And baby boomers are especially likely to have the disease, according to the University of Michigan Health System. They are five times more likely to have been exposed to the infection than other age groups. In fact, baby boomers comprise 75 percent of adults with… See more

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