Your eyes are a window to your health: Why you need regular exams

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(BPT) – Like many Americans, you may be putting off regular health appointments like eye exams because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, your optometrist may have been closed for some time, depending on where you live. It may seem less urgent to have an eye exam if you’re not experiencing vision problems, but more…

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Should you be evaluated for ADHD? It’s not just a kid thing

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(BPT) – If you are among the millions of adults in the U.S. who do not know they have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the past several months of social distancing have been a particularly steep battle. Our country was instructed to “sit still,” a command that children with ADHD hear every day in the classroom and…

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Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Serious, Sometimes Unheard of Lung Disease

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(BPT) – Currently, when people experience shortness of breath and/or a cough, they may think of COVID-19. However, if those symptoms are chronic, it could be a warning sign of another condition: pulmonary fibrosis (PF). PF is a debilitating lung disease that remains largely unknown, yet 50,000 new cases are diagnosed annually, and more than…

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