“Why wouldn’t I give patients a Percocet prescription? It makes their life easier and my life easier,” a colleague said to me recently. But that’s not the answer to the opioid epidemic.
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Fitness Center Shuffle Leaves More Room For Equipment
At its inception in 2010, the city fitness center was opened to take the place of the Northland Pioneer College gym, which was closed due to campus expansion. The city reached an agreement with NPC to obtain much of the fitness equipment from the gym …
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The Bad Air in Our Gyms
For the new study, Ms. Ramos obtained permission from 11 Lisbon gyms to position air-quality monitors in each site's weight room and several studios. The machines were set to measure pollutants during the late afternoon or evening hours, when the gyms …
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Major Link Soccer: Marco Pappa, Latino del Año
When thinking about what helped their team chemistry this season, the Whitecaps of course credit their coaches, and players, but a surprise to some might be Aidan Prem, a 19 year-old who has been working for the team's equipment staff since February.
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Boulder workout: Pilates Circuit
It's a great "sampler platter" kind of class to experience different movements — and because it's twice the size (six participants) of the equipment class, it's a lot cheaper: $ 18 per class instead of $ 30. This allows students to get semi-private …
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Cancer treatment and its aftereffects can prompt a cleaning binge and emptying of shelves. But for what, exactly, are we making room?
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Surgeons and other doctors are experimenting with the devices, recording and streaming procedures and looking up data.
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Gear: Home gyms don't have to take up a lot of room
The old home gym isn't what it used to be. It's more creative, often combining traditional fixed-path movements with self-balancing "functional" movements that force you to use more muscle groups to stabilize the load. Despite very different designs …
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Butler at home in Fordham gym
Well, the Bulldogs got to play Saturday in Fordham's Rose Hill Gym, an older building than theirs by three years – and it seems they like playing there. “I love Rose Hill Gym. I think it's one of neatest places I've coached in,” Butler's Brad Stevens …
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The number of annual hospital visits related to energy drinks doubled from 2007 to 2011, with patients from 18 to 25 accounting for the largest group by age, a federal report found.
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