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5 Ways To Boost Fitness While Maintaining Your Home This Fall
If fitness takes a back burner to your to do lists in the fall, we have some great news for you. You don’t have to give up your workout while you tackle your honey-do list; you can do them both at the same time! This year, incorporate 30 minutes of daily activity in the form of calorie-torching chores. You and your home will look great—and just in time for holiday photos.
Go Beyond The Pink Ribbon This Month: Learn, Prevent, And Help
When a simple pink ribbon is enough to remind us of a loved one or to make an appointment for a mammogram, it’s safe to say that breast cancer awareness is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, however, so are the instances of breast cancer. This means that it takes more than awareness to cure a disease; it takes knowledge, prevention, and hope.
7 Myths About Diabetes and 1 Absolute Truth
Think you know all there is to know about diabetes? Think again.
Diabetes isn’t serious. That may depend on how you define “serious”. According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes causes more deaths a year than breast cancer and AIDS—combined. It also aggravates other conditions that are also life threatening; two out of three diabetics die from heart disease or stroke. Just because diabetes is becoming increasingly more manageable doesn’t mean it’s not a serious condition with serious consequences.
Now Available: Online Tool that Lets YOU Manage Your Personal Health Information
We’re excited to offer a new online tool that provides anywhere, anytime access to your personal health records!
With our new patient portal, you can save time by using online tools that will help you better manage your health and make more informed decisions about your care – 24/7 from any computer, smartphone or tablet.
The Important Thing You Almost Forgot To Remember: School Physicals
You know that nagging feeling that there was something you were supposed to do this summer, and you just can’t remember what it is? You are pretty sure it was something simple and relatively easy and absolutely necessary, but for the love of all things hot and sunny, you just can’t put your finger on it.
The Solution To Eliminating Painful Varicose and Spider Veins
Family Healthcare of Siouxland is happy to announce it will be offering VenaCure EVLT® to its list of provided services. Helping patients by eliminating painful spider and varicose veins is part of the ongoing commitment to helping patients live long, active, energetic lives.