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Growing Up Healthy
Our Growing Up Healthy for kids and Writes of Passage for teens blogs helps you create a positive, healthy environment for your family. View the blogs
With Madison-area temperatures expected to soar through the 90s on their way to close to 100 degrees this week, UW Health emergency medicine physicians wan you to think about your health when you're enjoying the summer sun. The combination of hi...
6/28/2018 | Soaring Temperatures Increase Risk of Heat-related Illness 
It can happen in an instant: you land the wrong way on the soccer field or even while stepping off the curb, and — pop! — the ligament inside your knee tears. An injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL as it’s more commonly...
6/21/2018 | Preventing and Treating ACL Injuries 
Pet owners have known all along that animal companions are good for our health, and research backs up the claims. While dogs and cats get most of the recognition, birds, rabbits, fish, even horses and pigs can fill an important role in our lives. UW ...
6/21/2018 | The Health Benefit of Pets 
When you’re “pounding the pavement” during your early-morning jog or after-work run, the pavement is pounding right back. “When your foot hits the ground, the ground doesn’t bounce back like the Pillsbury Dough Boy ...
6/21/2018 | The Impact of Running 
If you look for nutrition advice online, you just might find apple cider vinegar among the results. The kitchen staple is supposedly helpful for relieving allergies, losing weight, managing diabetes and boosting energy. But is it really the miracle l...
6/18/2018 | Can Apple Cider Vinegar Help Your Health? 
Can a lack of sleep lead to dementia or Alzheimer’s? Despite what some news headlines might suggest, researchers don’t really know. But, there are some important things they do know – like why sleep is so critical to our health.A lo...
6/12/2018 | Sleep and the Alzheimer's Connection |
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