Ms. Alexandra O'hannon MSW

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• Preventing Exacerbations of COPD

  According to a statistic, 65 million people have moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) around the world. More than 3 million people have died because of COPD in 2005, which corresponds to 5 percent of all deaths globally. This puts COPD as one of the major causes of...

• Country Singer Ben Rue: "Buck Off Diabetes!"

  Diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 14, Ben Rue has learned to live with the chronic condition for most of his adolescence“My mother is a nurse and always brought home little gadgets to test on her boys for fun and so she brought home a blood sugar test one day to test all of us,” recalls Rue....

• Moms With Asthma Can Breastfeed Their Babies Without Worry

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• Testosterone Therapy May Only Lead to Cosmetic Effects

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• All About Atypical Pneumonia: Its Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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