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Tufts Medicine Welcomes Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice
August 23, 2024
The Tufts Medicine Center for Health Literacy Research + Practice focuses on reducing health literacy challenges for patients and their families, as well as healthcare and public health organizations and systems.
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Get the Facts about IUD Insertion + Pain Management
August 20, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s Director of Family Planning Danielle Roncari, MD, MPH, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine shares the facts about new CDC recommendations on managing pain during IUD birth control insertion.
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Protect Your Vision: Diabetic Retinopathy
August 14, 2024
Tufts Medical Center’s Andre J. Witkin, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, board-certified ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal specialist and surgeon, shares how to reduce your risk of developing diabetic retinopathy (DR).
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Spotlight on Myopia: Understanding Nearsightedness in Kids + Teens
August 12, 2024
Tufts Medical Center Ophthalmology & New England Eye Center’s Dr. Sylvia Yoo answers your questions about myopia in children and teenagers
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5 Tips for Vocal Health
August 12, 2024
Tufts Medicine’s voice care experts share how you can avoid vocal strain and injury and keep your voice in healthy and strong.
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Inside the Bruising Battle To Purge Race From a Kidney Disease Calculator
September 5, 2024
Quotes by Andrew Levey, MD, Nephrologist and Chief Emeritus of the Division of Nephrology at Tufts Medical Center, and Lesley Inker, MD, Nephrologist and Director of the Kidney and Blood Pressure Center and the Kidney Function Evaluation Center at Tufts MC, in an article about the story behind the decision to remove race from a widely-used equation to estimate kidney function.
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Here’s How Long It Takes Before Your Muscles Decondition, According to a Sports Medicine Physician
September 4, 2024
Shane Davis, MD, Non-Operative Sports Medicine Physician at Tufts Medical Center, in an article about how long it usually takes for muscles to decondition.
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Mass. Residents Urged To Take EEE Precautions Amid High Risk Level
August 30, 2024
Quotes by Shira Doron, MD, Chief Infection Control Officer at Tufts Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, in a story about increasing EEE risk levels in Massachusetts, and how to stay safe.
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