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Servicing your mobility equipment
How often does insurance (Medicare) cover service or modification to mobility equipment? Where can you get said service? Do you have to receive service at the original company where equipment was provided?
Holiday wines
While Thanksgiving has pretty much one traditional meal and is focused on one day, the Christmas and New Year holidays bring many meal favorites spanning a number of days. The wine choices similarly are multiplied …
Wine 2011: Look forward to good prices, choices
Riesling will rise. The market for wine in Asia will boom on. Customers will continue to hunt for vintage values. And the market for fine wine will continue to…
Orange-honey pine nut tart
Start to finish: 50 minutes (15 minutes active), plus cooling
Hollywood-style special effects give girl new ear
WASHINGTON - Elise Lutz never let her friends see what was left of her ear.
Chocolate, mint together in a festive tart
Ganache tarts are elegant, decadent and the epitome of chocolate love.
Nuts: A healthier, satisfying party food
When you're lining up the shots at your holiday party, don't hesitate to go a little nuts. Really.
The skinny on weight loss, part II
In my editorial "The Skinny on Weight Loss, Part I,"I discussed some of the difficulties associated with weight loss including the enzyme regulation of fat storage and fat loss from the adipocytes (fat cells).
Low, slow the way to go for speedy dinner
Sometimes low and slow is the best way to deal with a dinner short on time.
Purse-n-alities for everyone
Like many women, Suzan Helmhout loves switching purses frequently.
Surgeon general: One cigarette is one too many
WASHINGTON - Think the occasional cigarette won't hurt? Even a bit of social smoking - or inhaling someone else's secondhand smoke - could be enough to block your arteries and trigger a heart attack, says the newes…
Gifts from a health conscious Santa
What if Santa were a health nut? Putting his belly that 'shakes like a bowl full of jelly' aside, a health conscious Santa may think twice about the gifts he is offering this year. His list might look something lik…
Ask your audiologist...
As I have gotten older I find that I have to have ear wax removed about once a year now. What can I do myself that would help to keep the wax from building up on me?
Kids grieve too
Children are often called the forgotten mourners.
Study: Half of women over 40 get annual mammograms
SAN ANTONIO - Remember the uproar last year when a government task force said most women don't need annual mammograms? It turns out that only half of women over 40 had been getting them that often to start with, ev…