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  • History

    History

    Northwood, Inc. was established in 1992 as a specialized network of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and medical supplies (DMEPOS) providers offering cost-effective, high-quality products to health plans and self-funded

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  • Day care snacks lacking in nutritional value

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  • October is National Health Literacy Month

    October is National Health Literacy Month

    For more than a decade, Osborne drafted health education material, but when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and her doctor gave her a printout that was supposed to help her understand her condition, she said she couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

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  • Healthwatch – Elderly Patients and Pneumonia

    There are many health challenges in the elderly that are unique to this population. As a body ages, the risk for falls, fractures and specific illnesses increase. Even if a person has been relatively healthy for most of their life, decreased mobility and the effect of aging on the organs make certain risks a reality.

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  • Obesity Is A Big Contributor To Diabetes Boom

    Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in the U.S., and there’s a single biggest culprit to blame, found a new study released today in Annals of Internal Medicine: our ever-increasing body mass index, or BMI. The team analyzed data from five National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys of a nationally representative U.S. sample of 23,932 people.

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