4 Super Foods for Spectacular Health

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Raise your hand if you want to eat healthy. Healthy eating isn’t just good for cinching your waistline; it’s great for overall health. From glowing skin, to heart health, to maintaining healthy teeth and bones; eating foods packed with certain nutrients can also protect your immune system and fight infections.  It can boost your libido and decrease that lousy (LDL) cholesterol and boost your good (HDL) cholesterol. Healthy eating…

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How to be an Empowered Health Consumer

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Empowered health consumers know how to take charge of their health and are proactive in their care. Whether they’re surfing the web for health information, visiting their doctor or health care professional, or a patient in the hospital; empowered health consumers know how to question and communicate. This blog is a continuation of the “He Said, She Said” post where I promised to give you tips about how to…

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H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Follow-up: Our Reader Writes…

By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA — Ms. Parker writes: “Thank you again for your answers, you have been so very helpful in my decision to get vaccinated against swine flu. I am proud to say I received the vaccine a few days ago and everything was absolutely fine, I had no side effects at all. I am otherwise very healthy other than asthma but being vaccinated has given me peace of mind and will…

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Hand Washing and Swine Flu H1N1 – Still Important

Barbara and Kevin’s First, “He Said, She Said” Read our tips in our next post to find out how to be an empowered health consumer! She Said – Barbara Health Information – Confusing? I think most of us feel that there is so much health information circulating the web, in print and on TV that it can often be confusing. Major news networks may have the best intention to provide solid information, but there are…

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Health Consumers Need to Ask Tough Questions

Meet the Media Panel a Success By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA As promised, here is my follow-up post to “Meet the Media: Covering an Ailing Healthcare System in Critical Times.” I was invited by the NY Chapter Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to be part of the “Meet the Media:  Covering an Ailing Healthcare System in Critical Times” panel at Ketchum Public Relations. I love New York City.  No matter what time of…

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