Texas Family Medicine April 2023 Blog
Medicare Advantage Medicare Advantage plans, also known as Medicare Part C, offer several advantages over traditional Medicare. We highly...
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- Mar 28
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Texas Family Medicine March 2023 Blog
Medicare Advantage Plans We recommend Medicare Advantage plans for our senior patients. It makes sense for those seniors who want to...
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- Mar 8
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Texas Family Medicine February 2023 Blog
Getting on the move. A recent study in people over the age of 70 showed that 500 more steps a day will likely lower risk of heart attack...
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- Jan 25
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Texas Family Medicine January 2023 Blog
Vitamin Supplement A lot of our patients take vitamins for health reasons. They also have questions about them. Can they prevent heart...
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- Dec 21, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine December 2022 Blog
Short bursts of physical activity leads to extended longevity A British study of thousands of people wearing activity wristbands that...
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- Nov 17, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine November 2022 Blog
Cardiac Exercise and Cancer Prevention If you are like most other people, you or someone you love has been affected by cancer. Just this...
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- Oct 18, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine October 2022 Blog
What is Long COVID? Family physicians, including the providers at Texas Family Medicine, are seeing our post-COVID infection patients for...
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- Sep 21, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine September 2022 Blog
As of September 1, 2022, both CDC and the FDA approved the use of a new COVID vaccine for protection against new Omicron COVID variants...
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- Aug 7, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine August 2022 Blog
Dr. Brian Byrd At least once in your life, you probably have needed a physician on the weekend or after your doctor’s office has closed....
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- Jul 11, 2022
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Take a look at one of the biggest risk factors for heart attack and stroke: elevated blood pressure
By: Dr. Brian Byrd What is Good Blood Pressure? Hypertension remains the biggest risk factor for stroke (see previous blog on stroke) and...
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- Jun 14, 2022
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This month we will talk about arthritis which is a term that describes aching joints.
By: Dr. Brian Byrd What is Arthritis? There are over a hundred forms of arthritis but the most common are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid and...
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- Mar 31, 2022
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Texas Family Medicine April 2022 Blog
By: Dr. Brian Byrd In this month’s update we will talk about stroke prevention, nutrition tips, and the latest COVID developments that...
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- Mar 3, 2022
- 5 min
A Look at Depression and Anxiety
By: Dr. Brian Byrd At any given moment, roughly 30% of Americans experience either anxiety or depression. If you are feeling down,...
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- Jan 6, 2022
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Texas Cedar Fever (allergies) and Influenza
By: Dr. Brian Byrd For a lot of us, January and February are characterized by sneezing, runny nose and itchy eyes. That’s “cedar fever”...
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- Jan 3, 2022
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New COVID Treatment
By: Dr. Brian Byrd Until recently the only FDA-approved outpatient COVID treatments have been anti-COVID antibodies that require an IV...
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- Dec 9, 2021
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The Universal Flu Vaccine
By: Dr. Brian Byrd Every year since I was a kid we would get our annual flu shot in November or December. It struck me as odd that the...
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- Nov 8, 2021
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COVID Treatment Update
Up until now, 19 months into the COVID pandemic, the medical community has relied heavily on prevention through three vaccines. They...
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- Oct 22, 2021
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The COVID-19 Booster
While waiting for my flight to Fort Worth in the Miami airport, an announcement sounding like it was borrowed from a dystopian movie came...
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- Sep 30, 2021
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Stroke Treatment/VNS
There are from time-to-time medical breakthroughs worth noting because they significantly improve the lives of a lot of people. On August...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 3 min
Sorting Out the COVID Booster Shot Recommendations
There is frustrating variability in COVID booster recommendations emanating from the FDA, the CDC, HHS and the White House. As of the...
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