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Health Matters: Fibs
Your heart beats about 80,000 times each day. In order for this to really work, the electrical system…
Dr. Bob Wilson
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Twelve Times a Day
In the average day a person breaths 20,000 times, beats their heart 90,000 times, blinks 15,000 times, and…
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Fat, Plagiarism, and Global Warming
Our national health care system is in a sorry state because we have a lack of rational leadership,…
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First, let me apologize to the editor of the Islands’ Weekly who, day in and day out, strives…
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Health Matters
It’s an epidemic on Lopez, probably throughout all of Washington, and probably throughout our country.
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Bleeding: A guide to what should be investigated | Health Matters
When blood comes out of the wrong places, people get upset. And really, why shouldn’t they? Blood belongs…
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Food allergies: What to do and what to avoid | Health Matters
Are you allergic to a food? And if you are, is it actually an allergy or is it…
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To the morbidly curious: Here’s how you die | Dr. Bob Wilson
Have you ever wondered about the details of the death process? Of course you haven’t! That kind of…
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Health Matters
Are you having a body part removed or altered in the near future? Here is a brief, pre-surgical…
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Health Matters: Whoopee
January is National Hot Tea Month and National Oatmeal Month and celebrates Nothing Day, Play God Day (a.k.a.…
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Health Matters: D does not stand for dog
I was surprised to read the results of a research paper that was recently published about vitamin D.…