Stephanie Stephens

Mind Your Body

Trick or over-treating? Study rates doctors’ appointments

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Are you getting more than your “money’s worth” when you visit your doctor? If you’ve waited weeks for your appointment, then you feel rushed or short-changed, you may be surprised about what your … [Read more...]

Gotta’ get that boom, boom, boom(er)!

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Thanks, Black-Eyed Peas, for the lead-in here. Your hit, hip-hop groove really oughta’ be the cumulative voice of marketing gurus targeting nearly 77 million baby boomers. We’re born between 1946 and … [Read more...]

No excuse for elder abuse | What you can do

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Mind Your Body TV Episode 5 with Mary Twomey. (Elder Abuse: Part I) This year's World Elder Abuse Awareness Day occurs on June 15, quietly proclaiming a dirty little secret that isn’t so little after … [Read more...]

There’s something in my eye: a corneal inlay

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Plop. There they’d go again, reading glasses sliding off the ski jump of my nose. I’d push them back—that is, when I could find the darned things. Losing my near or up-close vision was one of the … [Read more...]