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22 Dec

Is it possible to lose weight during the holidays?

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Holiday parties are in full swing. That means in addition to catching up with friends and family, you are likely seeing more sweets treats around the house or office. Coupled with less time to exercise, you may start to worry about holiday weight gain. In reality, we gain only a pound or two during the holidays. However, those extra pounds tend to stick around all year, which is where the real damage to our waistlines occurs. Trying to stave off holiday weight gain and actually lose weight before the New Year?

07 Dec

Hillcrest Volunteers Are Heart of the Hospital

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More than 300 volunteers give their time, because they want to help patients, visitors, doctors, nurses and staff at Hillcrest. By the end of this year, more than 36,000 hours of service will be logged. From transporting patients where they need to go to letting family know when their loved one is out of surgery, volunteers are truly the heart of the hospital.

04 Dec

Family as Health Care Advocates in Recognizing Stroke

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Though it seems not as many people talk about it compared to heart attacks or cancer, the fact is stroke kills. Each year more than 130,000 Americans will lose their life after suffering a stroke. That’s one person every four minutes. In total, nearly 800,000 Americans will have a stroke this year.

12 Nov

10 Ways to Stay Active and Fit this Fall

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Hillcrest Exercise & Lifestyle Programs exercise specialist Lauren Yust, shares tips for staying physically active now that cooler temperatures and shorter days have arrived.

We all know summer can be a hot and sticky season. It can be too hot and at times too dangerous to do any activities outdoors. With the beginning of cooler weather though, there are endless activities that you can do outside. Here are some ideas for outdoor fun this fall:

29 Oct

A High Risk Antepartum Happy Ending

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“The morning of the delivery I was happy,” says first time mother Belle Laskey. “I wasn’t scared. I was just ready - really ready to see them.” After eight weeks of hospitalization in the high risk antepartum floor at the Peggy V. Helmerich Women’s Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center, Belle made it to the date she had been waiting for – September 3, 2015 – the day her twin girls would be 32 weeks gestation.

07 Oct

A Mother Shares Her Breast Cancer Battle

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Mindy Ogden almost waited. “It just kept nagging at me,” she says of a warning sign that came 10 months before her next scheduled appointment with her OB/Gyn. Last September, she was a few weeks shy of her 40^th birthday. The mother of six knew fluid coming from her breast was something that should not wait, however, and she called her doctor. “That scared me.” Although her doctor could not detect anything wrong with a breast exam, she recommended that Mindy have a mammogram.

30 Sep

The Spirit of a Breast Cancer Survivor

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Loy Carroll comes from a family of strong women. “We do what we have to do,” she says. However, Loy does not come from a family with a history of breast cancer. At the age of 59, breast cancer was probably the furthest thing from her mind in April of 2014. After all, she had received a clear mammogram screening just six months earlier.

21 Sep

Ovarian Cancer Awareness: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Prevention

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September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and by the end of this year, 21,980 women in the United States will be told they have ovarian cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer and the eighth most common cancer among women. Women under the age of 65 are twice as likely to survive five years (57 percent) compared to women diagnosed 65 or older (28 percent.) Unfortunately, most cases of ovarian cancer present in the advanced stages (stages III or IV). This means that the disease has spread outside the ovaries.

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