Alcohol is never safe during pregnancy
      Once again we have arrived at this wondrous season of hope and renewal. This season so filled with preparing our homes and our offices and our schedules; preparing to visit, to attend, to host; preparing to share and reminisce,
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Designate a driver to keep holidays safe
      The holiday season between Thanksgiving and New Year's is one of the deadliest and most dangerous times of the year due to an increase in impaired driving.
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Thoughts on holiday trees and teaching values, morality
      Where have values truly gone? I can remember my parents enforcing rules when I was a child and teaching us values that formed as a result of true beliefs and knowledge. Today, however, there still exist parents such as that, but morals are depleting primarily due to impressions made and dictated b...
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Holidays can be educational as well as celebratory
      To quote John Lennon, "So this is Christmas…" but it's also Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, followed by the Diwali (Indian) and 'Id al-Fitr (Muslim) festivals. For virtually everyone in our state, holidays are a special time, whenever in the year they occur.
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Doctor lists Santa's naughty and nice habits
      Children around the world look to Santa Claus to help them behave, but this 500-year-old bearer of goodies can also teach adults about the importance of staying healthy as we grow older. Is Santa healthy? In many ways, Santa is the picture of successful aging. In other ways, he certainly has some...
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Doctor offers ways to keep holidays from turning blue
      The holiday season can bring great joy, a time when celebrating with family and friends is buoyed even further by a sense of renewal and the hope for better things in the year ahead, but not everyone will share in the celebratory nature of the season. For some, the presence of so much celebration ...
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