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Midlands Cares: Hearth Health With Tyler Ryan
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Midlands Cares: Heart Health and protecting our most important organ

Tyler Ryan learns about the importance of protecting your heart from MUSC Dr. Katrina Bidwell
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February is Heart Month, and although these 28 days are specifically set aside to awareness and education, protecting the blood pumper should be top of mind all year.  There is an easy case to be made that the heart is probably our most vital piece of hardware.  In fact, MUSC Heart and Vascular Cardiologist Doctor Katrina Bidwell says “the heart works for you 24 hours a day, and it only rests between beats, pumping blood and oxygen to the rest of your body.”

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Midlands Cares: Reducing Holiday Stress

Tyler Ryan learns about methods to reduce Holiday Stress from MUSC Health's Morgan Mankins
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ELGIN, SC (WOLO) – As much fun as the Holidays are, they also come with a good bit of stress between shifting routines, health concerns, and changes in diet, all of which can impact your overall health. MUSC Health Family Nurse Practitioner Morgan Mankins joined Tyler Ryan on Midlands Gives to discuss some ways to help mitigate some of those…

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Midlands Cares: Breast Cancer Awareness

Tyler Ryan learns about breast cancer, including the causes and treatments
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ELGIN SC (WOLO) — Impacting 1 in 8 women in their lifetime, breast cancer  is an uncontrolled growth of breast cells, which occurs as a result of changes in the genes responsible for keeping cells healthy.  According to MUSC Health Mammography Coordinator Wanda Malliniski, breast cancer invades the breast and at some point, it will metastasize meaning that will leave…

Midlands Cares: Vein Concerns
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Midlands Cares: Understanding Vein Disorders

Tyler Ryan learns about the causes, concerns, and treatments of common vein issues
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COLUMBIA SC (WOLO) – Vein disorders impact many people of all ages, and come from various causes, and impact over 30 million Americans.  According to Dr. Norma Khoury, a cardiologist, with a specialty in veins at MUSC Health explains the job of our veins: “If we look at the whole system, the heart pumps out the blood through the arteries,…