Health Watch Blog - Part 2

6 Medical Treatment Phobias You Didn’t Know Existed

Medical Treatment Phobias

As one of the first points of contact for a patient entering a doctor’s office, a medical assistant may often have first-hand encounters with the fear that people experience when it’s time to have a medical procedure performed. For some patients, however, it’s more than just mere fear; it’s a bonafide phobia, and it’s helpful for medical assistants to realize that these conditions exist so that they have the ability to recognize, sympathize and perhaps even ease these fears to some degree. Here are some of the medically themed phobias they might run into.

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Study Finds It’s Harder for African-American Women to Lose Weight

Study Finds It's Harder for African-American Women to Lose Weight

If you’re an African-American woman struggling to lose weight, a new study shows that your troubles might not lie solely in your eating and exercise habits, but rather in your DNA. A report published in the International Journal of Obesity finds that African-American women lose less weight than their Caucasian counterparts, even with comparable dietary and physical activity routines.

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Is Beatboxing Bad for Your Voice?

Is Beatboxing Bad for Your Voice?

If you’re a fan of old school hip-hop music or new school a cappella music, chances are you’re familiar with beatboxing, a vocal maneuver in which people imitate drum, cymbal and other percussive sounds with their mouths. You don’t have to listen to much beatboxing to come to the assumption that doing it frequently and for extended periods of time would probably be hard on the vocal cords — even more so than singing — but is that really the case?

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