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Kids’ Sports: How to Avoid Overuse Injuries (Video)

Tags: concussion, sports injuries, strains and sprains, summer safety, youth sports

Youth sports injuries can turn into chronic, nagging problems for kids — unless they're given time to rest and heal.

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The Ground Rules for Potty Training (Video)

Tags: growing pains of parenting, potty training series

Pediatrician Deb Lonzer, MD, shares basic tips for potty training success and tells parents there’s more than one right way to get the job done.

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Buzz Kill: Energy Drinks

Tags: abnormal heart beat, arrhythmia, energy drinks, heart, heart and vascular institute, heart health, prevention, risk factors

Before you reach for an energy drink, decide whether increased blood pressure and a prolonged QT interval (an abnormal heart rhythm) is the buzz you’re after.

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8 Foods for Head-to-Toe Beauty (Slideshow)

Tags: beauty, diet, healthy diet, vitamins

Beauty is more than skin-deep. In fact, sometimes it goes as deep as your digestive system — and the foods you eat.

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Is Scarless Thyroid Surgery Right for You?

Tags: Grave's disease, obesity, thyroid, thyroid surgery, thyroiditis

Scarless robotic thyroid surgery hides scars, but not everyone is a good candidate. Cleveland Clinic endocrinologist Eren Berber, MD, discusses the risks and benefits of this technique.

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Is Your Child Ready to Potty Train? (Video)

Tags: growing pains of parenting, potty training series

Deb Lonzer, MD, talks about several traits kids exhibit when they’re ready for potty training. Usually these advances happen around 2 years old.

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PAD Problems? Medicated Stents Can Help (Video)

Tags: artery disease, heart and vascular institute, PAD, peripheral artery disease (PAD), stent, vascular disease

Vascular surgeons now use medicated, flexible stents to treat patients with narrowed arteries to the legs. Initial research shows that the stents help lower the risk that treated arteries will become narrow again.

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5 Smart Questions You Need to Ask Your Doctor

Tags: doctor's appointment, family history, personalized healthcare

As you leave your doctor’s office, you think, “Oh, I forgot to ask…” If this happens to you, use these five crucial questions to start a healthy conversation with your doctor.

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Dancers and Skin Care Answers (Slideshow)

Tags: health hub tips, lose weight, skin care, slideshow

What’s the surefire way to stay younger looking? Can you Watusi that weight off? And what are your sneezes telling you? Get answers to these and other pressing questions.

70,000 people a year lose a limb from diabetes

Diabetes Dangers, Old-fashioned Cures

Tags: amputation, diabetes, health hub number, infographic, Type 2 diabetes

Each year, 70,000 people lose a lower limb -- a leg or foot -- because of type 2 diabetes. Though it contributes to more than 230,000 deaths each year, you can find old-fashioned solutions in today's health number.