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Men’s Health Checklist: Essential Screenings to Prevent Serious Illness

Dr. Michael Bazel

An annual checkup for men serves as a crucial checkpoint to monitor changes in your health, update vaccinations, and discuss lifestyle habits that contribute to overall wellness. He helps patients in Valley Village, Panorama City , and Bell, CA, stay on top of their health year after year.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

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The 5 Most Common Health Risks for Men and Strategies for Prevention

Dr. Michael Bazel

Monitor Health: Regularly check your blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. Early detection is crucial to prevent serious complications. If not properly managed, diabetes can lead to serious complications like kidney disease, nerve damage, and heart problems. Unexplained weight loss. Fatigue and irritability.

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What Is The Best Example Of Preventive Care?

Mesa Family Physician

These measures are taken before any evidence of disease or injury is present and are designed to prevent health problems from occurring in the first place. From childhood vaccinations to adult boosters and seasonal flu shots, immunizations prevent millions of illnesses annually.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.