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  • Prostate Cancer: Understanding Your Options

    Prostate Cancer: Understanding Your Options

    Prostate cancer is most often found in men ages 65 and older. This cancer affects the gland located below the bladder and in front of the rectum. It also wraps around part of the urethra. This is why symptoms can include a frequent need to urinate and a weak stream of urine.

  • Don’t Let Kidney Disease Sneak Up on You

    Don’t Let Kidney Disease Sneak Up on You

    Every day, your kidneys have a major job: to filter about 200 quarts of blood to make about 2 quarts of urine. What could go wrong?

  • Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: Tips for Black Mothers

    Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby: Tips for Black Mothers

    Every year in the U.S., 50,000 people have something unexpected happen during labor that causes a serious health problem. For Black women, pregnancy is more dangerous. In fact, Black women are 3 times more likely than white women to die of a cause related to being pregnant.

Wellness Center

Spot Spring Allergy Triggers

If you suffer from stuffy sinuses, sneezing, and red, itchy eyes in the spring, here are steps to help prevent symptoms.

Quizzes

Antibiotics Quiz

Antibiotics have been called "wonder drugs," because of their ability to treat bacterial infections that were once deadly. Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were first introduced 60 years ago. But over use of these drugs has allowed some bacteria to become resistant to them.

Multimedia

Vital Signs: Know Your Numbers

Your heart rate, breathing or respiratory rate, blood pressure, and temperature are known as your vital signs. Measuring your vital signs helps your healthcare provider assess your basic bodily functions.

Symptom Checker