Therapeutic Touch Workshop to be Offered at Griffin Hospital
On Friday, June 13, 2008 , Griffin Hospital will offer a basic level therapeutic touch workshop from 7:30 am - 6:30 pm.
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Tickets Available for Women and Heart Disease “Dessert with David”
An encore presentation by Dr. David Katz will be held on Thursday, May 8, at 6:30 pm in the Griffin Hospital Dining Room. The Committee is focused on increasing heart disease awareness among women, empowering them to love and save their hearts, and ensuring that they are provided the means to do so through education and rehabilitation!
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Third Annual Tea Party for Valley Breast Care Fund
Get a jump on Mother's Day by bringing your mother, daughter and granddaughter to a Tea Party! And be sure to encourage her to wear her favorite hat! Hosted by members of the Women's Health Initiative to benefit the Griffin Hospital Valley Breast Health Care Fund, the Tea Party will take place on Sunday, April 27, from 2 to 4 pm.
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| Doctor's food-ranking system makes sense
Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register
As various "feel good" consumer groups look for their favorite buzz words on food packages, a medical doctor at Yale University has developed a sensible food ranking system that might render those descriptive terms obsolete.
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Use of Hypertension Drugs Leads to Hip Bone Loss in Older Men
eFlux Media
Powerful diuretics, commonly prescribed drugs for heart failure and hypertension, can also steal calcium from the bones and cause significant bone loss in men taking them, study finds.
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Link Between Bone Loss And Diuretics In Older Men
Medical News Today
According to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers have found increased rates of hip bone loss in older men who take frequently prescribed heart failure and hypertension drugs called loop diuretics.
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