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UTI Health Care Expenses on the Rise: Is Your Diet to Blame?
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Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Higher Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
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Four Ultra-Processed Foods that May Increase Diabetes Risk
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How Eye Exams Can Detect Early Signs of Diabetes
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Understanding the Connection Between Your Bladder and Pelvic Floor
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Risk Factors for Stomach Cancer
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Is Too Much Noise Harmful to Your Health?
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What to Know About Your Family’s Health History
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Mammograms: What Doctors Want You to Know
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How to Understand Your Mammogram Report
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Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause Treatment
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What To Know About Heart Health and Yard Work
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What to Know About Breast Density and Mammograms
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Is Dementia Hereditary?
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Breast Cancer Prevention: Steps to Take Today
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5 Things I’d Do as a Woman to Promote Healthy Aging
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Natural Ways to Deal with Chronic Pain
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What is Macular Degeneration?
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What are Risk Factors for Falling As You Age?
Dr. James Grant
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5 Questions I’d Never Leave My Annual Preventive Visit Without Asking
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What is Red Light Therapy?
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Can Shingles Increase Dementia Risk?
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What to Look for in a Blood Panel
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The Risks of Swimming and Showering with Contacts
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What to Know About Heavy Metals Found in Tampons
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What to Look for in Clothes That Protect Against the Sun
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Which Vaccines Students Should Receive Before Returning to School
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Which Preventive Exams are Covered and Which Are Not?
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What to Know About Lyme Disease and Tick-Born Illnesses
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What is Diabetes? Everything You Need to Know
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What to Know About the New COVID Variant

Medically Reviewed by: Dr. James Grant, M.D.

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What is Cardiac Arrest?
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Can I Have Too Much Iron? Understanding Hemochromatosis
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Are Generic Medications Effective?
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5 Amazing Facts About the Brain You Probably Don’t Know
Home for Knee Replacement Surgery
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Safer, Shorter Recovery at Home
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What Causes Tension Headaches?
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What to Do if You Feel Rushed at the Doctor’s Office
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Collaborative Care Addresses the Surging Demand for Mental Health Care Services
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'You Advocate for Your Own Health:' How Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Saves Lives
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5 Healthy Habits to Start During Men’s Health Month
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June is Men’s Health Month: What Can I Do?
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Men’s Health Month: The Doctors and Specialists Who Keep You Healthy
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5 Health Numbers Every Woman Should Know
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Leader Dogs for the Blind Teaches the Visually Impaired to Travel Safely and Independently at No Cost
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Women’s Health: The Doctors and Specialists Who Keep You Healthy
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Tips to Manage High Blood Pressure or Hypertension
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Vaccines Children Need: Recommendations for Ages 0-2
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Cancer Screenings 101: What You Need at Every Age
A person with diabetes struggles with sore feet.
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How Diabetes Affects Your Feet
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Life-Saving Narcan Vending Machine Access Expanded in West Michigan through Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI, Cherry Health Partnership
Man plays tennis staying healthy at every age
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Men’s Health at Every Age
Sick woman blowing her nose.
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Is it a Cold or Seasonal Allergies? How to Tell the Difference
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The Difference between MD, DO, PA, RN and More, Explained
Is Colorectal Cancer Hereditary?
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Is Colorectal Cancer Hereditary? 
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Chronic Kidney Disease Signs, Symptoms, Risk Factors and Tests
Little girl wearing glasses that are too big for her
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How Vision is Tested in Young Children
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Syphilis Cases in Michigan Are Surging. Here’s Why.
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The 3 Main Types of Colon Cancer Screenings Explained
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Optometrist vs. Ophthalmologist: What’s the Difference?
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When and Why You Should Get a Colonoscopy
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Understanding Medical Tests for Kidney Disease
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4 Ways to Observe Colon Cancer Awareness Month
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Diet Changes to Make to Reduce Your Colorectal Cancer Risk
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Best Practices for Measuring Blood Pressure at Home
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Health Screenings You Need in Your 60s 
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Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative Teams with BCBSM Foundation to Improve Colorectal Cancer Surgery Outcomes Statewide 
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Best Steps for Preventing Heart Disease
Dentist checking a patient
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5 Important Questions to Ask Your Dentist
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Dental Sepsis: The Danger of Letting Toothaches Go Untreated
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Health Screenings You Need in Your 50s
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Managing Asthma or ADHD? Why You May Need an Annual Physical
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Health Screenings You Need in Your 40s
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Health Screenings You Need in Your 30s
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Ways Blue Cross Helps Members Access Women’s Preventive Care
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How to Maximize the Benefits in Your Health Insurance Plan
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Is Cervical Cancer Hereditary?
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Beyond BMI: The Role of Weight in Health Outcomes
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Health Screenings You Need in Your 20s
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How Patients Can Advocate for Themselves at the Doctor’s Office
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Red Cross Faces Emergency Blood Shortage
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5 Tips to Make Scheduling Doctor’s Appointments Easier
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What to Know About HPV’s Link to Cervical Cancer 
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Have an HMO? 3 Reasons to See Your Primary Care Provider This Year
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Why Uncontrolled High Blood Pressure is Called the ‘Silent Killer’
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Cervical Cancer Screening: What You Need to Know
Doctor wearing a mask takes the blood pressure of a young man wearing a mask
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Doctor's Appointments to Make This Year
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How to Prepare for an Exercise Stress Test
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What’s a Normal Blood Pressure?
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5 Bowel Issues I'd Never Ignore
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Hand Sanitizer and Norovirus: What You Need to Know
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Why Viruses Love the Cold
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Survival Rates Increasing from Devastating Illnesses
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CEO: Health Questions to Ask Friends, Family at Holidays
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What is an A1C?
Woman walking with weights
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What You Can Do to Help Prevent Chronic Conditions  
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Blue Cross Helps to Provide Free Dental Care to Detroit Students at Ford Field
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Overcoming Scanxiety: How to Cope with Pending Medical Test Results
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How to Prepare for a Blood Test
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How to Prepare for a Mammogram
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