Monthly Archives: February 2012

Fighting Childhood obesity begins at home

Posted on February 24, 2012 by lratner

Accord­ing to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, child­hood obe­sity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. We all, as a soci­ety, need to under­stand that the inci­dence of child­hood obe­sity and its con­se­quences are dev­as­tat­ing. Although … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Black History Month Spotlight

Posted on February 17, 2012 by lratner

Many of us at Impact Urgent Care are his­tory buffs, and because it’s Black His­tory Month, we’d like to intro­duce you to a very impor­tant fig­ure in the med­ical field. His name was Daniel Hale Williams and he founded Prov­i­dent … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Allergy Testing

Posted on February 9, 2012 by lratner

Spring allergy sea­son will be here soon and many are already suf­fer­ing. It might be because San Anto­nio was ranked 40 out of 100 cities in a 2010 study on spring allergy capitals.

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American Heart Month

Posted on February 2, 2012 by lratner

If you haven’t started tak­ing care of your­self in 2012, then Feb­ru­ary is lit­er­ally the per­fect month to get your heart pump­ing. Why? It’s Amer­i­can Heart Month and the health ben­e­fits of phys­i­cal activ­ity are proven and well doc­u­mented. The … Con­tinue read­ing →

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