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As friends and family members roll into your homes this season, the HealthLinks team hopes you will enjoy some of our tasty holiday favorites. For more recipes, please see the HealthLinks website. To health, happiness and the holidays  –  Cheers! Cullen’s Oysters Rockefeller Ingredients: Chesapeake Bay oysters – preferably toward the mouth of the bay, where … Read more
Way back in the 1930s, a guy named Chester Gould created a hard-boiled comic strip detective named Dick Tracy. It was a big hit. In 1946, Gould gave Tracy a new weapon in his crime-fighting crusade – a two-way radio housed in a wristwatch. This kind of communication device was almost beyond imagining at the … Read more
You have likely heard all the talk about gut health. Maybe you thought: “I don’t have any problems with my stomach, so that doesn’t apply to me.” But did you know that as the science around gut health has expanded, the health and diversity of your gut microbiota has been connected to your overall health. … Read more
When Donna Williamson left Roper Hospital after a three-week stay for pneumonia, she, as most of us would, expected to gradually feel back to her old self. However, just days later, Donna felt poorly enough to return to Roper, where she received the sobering news that she not only had pneumonia but also COVID-19. She … Read more
“Never look a gift horse in the mouth” might be wise advice if you’re dealing with a “gift horse.” But it sends precisely the wrong message if you’re concerned about the health of your family pet. Regular inspection and appropriate care of your cat or dog’s teeth and gums in particular will impact not only … Read more
Few words inspire such fear in women as, “you have breast cancer.” Even with advances in modern medicine, about 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with this disease and some will die from it. But within her lifetime, Charleston medical oncologist Dr. Ashley Jeter hopes to see a day cancer and its fears are … Read more