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Tips to Improve Your Heart Health

The health of our hearts is essential to every function of our daily lives. There is perhaps no more important aspect to maintaining our overall health and wellbeing than taking care of our heart. Due...
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Tips to Improve Your Heart Health

Occasional Anxiety

Occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. Life is stressful for many of us and experiencing symptoms of worry, irritability, and fatigue related to this anxiety is common. However, people with anxiety disorder often...
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Could someone you know have ADD?

Could someone you know have ADD? Maybe they’re impulsive, inattentive or disorganized. People with inattention may procrastinate, may not complete tasks like homework or chores, or may frequently move from one uncompleted activity to another....
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Exercise as Medication

If there was a medication you could take that improved energy, sleep, libido, and confidence level all while reducing your risk for diabetes, heart attack, stroke and osteoporosis would you take it?  Great news, there...
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Sunburns

A painful and bothersome side effect of summers spent at beaches, lakes, and parks can be sunburn. Unfortunately, hours spent outside can result in red, painful skin. It is also possible to develop swelling and...
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Hepatitis C Screening

This is due to recently developed antiviral medications that can treat Hepatitis C effectively with few side effects. Thus, it is now recommended that anyone born between the years of 1945-1965 have
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Transitioning from Pediatrician to Primary Care

Many parents have questions about when is the appropriate time to transition their child’s care from the pediatrician to the primary care setting. The answer to this question is that this is a highly individualized...
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Alcohol Misuse and What To Know

You may have noticed during one of your recent visits to Family Practice Center that one of our medical assistants or providers asked you to complete an alcohol use screening tool called the AUDIT-C. This...
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Atlanta March for Science

Along with thousands of other, Drs. Jim and Tyler Wheeler participated in the Atlanta March for Science on 4/22/17. As physicians and critical thinkers the Wheelers are strong supporters of scientific research and the use...
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Atlanta March for Science

Allergy Season and What to Know

Have you been seeing yellow pollen dust on your cars and porches? This time of year in Atlanta, it is very common to see this everywhere. You may also see numbers or colors in the...
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