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Proud to Be a Health Care Professional

Teaching Kids About Successes And Failures - Confessions Of A Proud Dad By Stuart Adams The first few years of my son’s life were tougher than what they ought to have been. PAGE 12

If I’d Had To Wait Until 67 For Medicare, I’d Be Dead By Russ Mitchell A proposal to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 to ratchet down spending is one of the more explosive ideas in the fiscal talks PAGE 19

Sisters Network, the only national African American breast cancer survivorship organization in the United States, prepares to Walk For A Cure. Eat Potassium Rich Foods to Lower Blood Pressure By Richard M Harrison Potassium is one of four essential electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium) used in the body. PAGE 21

New Coverage May Spur Younger Women To Use Long-Acting Contraceptives By Michelle Andrews Under the Affordable Care Act, new plans or those that lose their grandfathered status are required to provide a range of preventive benefits PAGE 25

Amerigroup, proudly serving Texas for over 15 years, is truly Heath Care that Cares.

Sterling Carter Stewart Cadillac Community Champion of the Month

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” James Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1859) – an English critic, essayist, poet and writer


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