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Laura Billings


Recent Articles by Laura Billings

Weightloss After 40

Weightloss after 40 can feel like a losing battle. Nutritional counseling helps you make changes for a lifetime—not just bikini season.

no child left inside

No Child Left Inside

For the first time in history, most people on the planet live in urban areas, and technology has so altered our landscape that a "tweet" is more likely to come from a cell phone than a songbird.

Not Enough Nurses

Not Enough Nurses

With a government estimate claiming that the nation's health care system could be short as many as one million registered nurses by 2020, recruiting the next crop of nurses could be critical to our health.

Harbor Lights

Harbor Lights

The harbor village has remade itself into a destination of its own, with fine restaurants featuring local catch, a thriving timber-frame campus for folk art instruction, and lakefront luxury lodgings.

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Allergic to Life

From peanuts to pet dander to pollen, more Americans have allergies than ever before.

Wake-Up Call

Wake-Up Call

Between tonsils and television, there's a lot that keeps kids from a good night's sleep.

Love Medicine - Feb. 09

Love Medicine

What really keeps us healthy? Is it marriage, or is it just the sex?

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Immune to Reason?

With all the anti-vaccine hype, parents of newborns are bound to ask the question: “Are vaccines safe for my child?” But should they really be worrying?

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The Veritas About Vino

We all know alcohol is to be consumed in moderation, but can a mere glass of wine a day really keep the doctor away?

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Darkness Visible

How could the birth of her baby send a new mother into such despair that she does the unthinkable?




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