To hear some people talk, they’d rather wrestle alligators or have open heart surgery than visit the dentist. Too bad. Regular visits to the dentist not only improve your oral and general health, but can also boost your self-image, self-confidence and smile. If going is good, why not go to the best? Check out the dentists listed here – they’ve…
The message is straightforward — excess weight can be deadly. It is a major risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, vascular disease and sleep apnea, even in the absence of family history and other risk factors. It adds pain and pressure on arthritic joints. A recent seven-year study of 20,000 women by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American…
If your eyes are functioning well, it’s easy to take good vision for granted. But that would be a mistake. As changes can occur in other systems of the body, so also can eyes sustain injury or develop problems at any point in the lifespan, says Dr. Christopher Chapman, section chief in the Ophthalmology Department at Dartmouth Medical Center. Even…
Dr. Louis Fink, medical director of the New England Heart Institute at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, recently attended a conference that brought together heart specialists from around the nation. “There were reports on cutting edge technology,” he says. “There were sessions on critical issues of diagnosis and treatment. But there is still no silver bullet, no perfect pill for…
Do you long for knees that do what you tell them to do, with no argument? Was a pain-free hip on your Christmas list? For your grandparents, such wishes were just that … wishes. Today these wishes can come true. Modern joint replacement surgery has given thousands of people the pain free, active lives they feared were lost forever. Dr….
So the Red Sox won the World Series and the Patriots are on a roll. Well, lest we get too excited, there is still another high-stakes contest to settle before everyone can relax. However victorious our sports dynasties remain, there are plenty of tears in store for most of the presidential candidates and their faithful supporters in the days ahead….
As we plan how we will spend our stimulus checks, the Governor, the N.H. Business and Industry Association and the N.H. Auto Dealers Association have decided, once again, to sing out of the same dog-eared hymnal. These three bastions of moderation, obfuscation and limited commitment have joined souls and, I suspect, wallets, to ensure that New Hampshire adopts a constitutional…
During the past year, you may have noticed some of your fellow New Hampshirites wearing a button that says “Ed ’08.” “Ed” is short for education and the button is part of a national campaign to press this year’s candidates for president on their plans for improving our schools. Barack Obama came forth with an “ed” plan. Bill Richardson has…
Frank Guinta, the Republican mayor of Manchester, has lately been threatening to run for governor. His Honor, who is still 30-something and has just begun his second term as mayor, might do better to wait a while. For one thing, if Guinta were to run this year, he would have to run on the same day that Gov. John Lynch…
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