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May 13, 2019 Living with Celiac Disease – How to Identify and Manage the Disease Wellness

Living with Celiac Disease – How to Identify and Manage the Disease Samantha Anton, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility In recent years, there has been a trend in restaurants and food distributors to offer gluten-free options to ...

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May 13, 2019 Finding Hearing Loss Early Wellness

To ensure healthy social and educational development, it’s crucial to detect hearing loss in babies and children as early as possible. Experts know that the first three years of life are the most intense time for brain development in terms of processing ...

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May 10, 2019 A Baby's Best Friend Wellness

How a Therapy Dog Helped One Little Girl Recover Her Strength Respiratory Syncytial Virus, known as RSV, is an infection in the respiratory tract that can lead to serious problems. It’s always a matter of concern when a baby gets it, but is even more so ...

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May 10, 2019 The Goal: Zero Errors Wellness

The RWJBarnabas Health System is on a Mission to Achieve the Highest Safety Standards. If a nuclear power plant has a serious accident, it’s big news. In large part, that’s because organization in this and other high-risk industries, where errors can be ...

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May 10, 2019 Where to Get the Best Cancer Care Wellness

For Patients, What Does it Mean to Have Access to a Comprehensive Cancer Center That is Designated by the National Cancer Institute? Rutgers Cancer Institute of new Jersey, a partner of RWJBarnabas Health, is the state’s only National Cancer ...

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May 10, 2019 Better Care for Older Adults Wellness

Healthcare Providers are Taking a Fresh Look at How to Treat the Elderly An elderly man who’d been admitted to the hospital was disoriented. “He thinks he’s talking to his father, who died years ago,” the man’s daughter told his doctor. “Does this mean he ...

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May 10, 2019 Making a Real Impact Wellness

RWJBarnabas Health is committed to promoting community health, both inside and outside a medical center’s walls. A child is taken to the emergency department for asthma, is treated and sent home – to an apartment where leaky pipes cause mold that triggers ...

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Apr 29, 2019 Fuel Your Body for a Run Wellness

With spring weather finally upon us, it’s a great time to get outdoors for some running. When running, it’s important to know what helps fuel your body and what helps it recover after a run. Before a run: If you’re hungry two hours out, have something ...

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Apr 29, 2019 Be in Control of Your Thoughts and Well Being This Month Wellness

Continue to prioritize self-care this month. A few continuous acts of self-care can turn into healthy habits for the rest of your life. Self-care is important because it is believed by many mental health professionals that caring for others begins with ...

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