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Laughter is the Best Medicine!

A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes after. Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease.

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Mental Illness is a harsh reality to some. Many people feel that because there are no lab test, x-ray or physical manifestation of mental illness means that it is not real. The whole truth is that it is real.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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Menopause Can Lead to Mental Illness

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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April 17, 2016
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| Celebrities, Discussion, Divorce, Education, Enough Said!, Family, Female Depression, Love and Happiness, Marriage, Marriage Counseling, medication management, Medicine, Mental Health, Parenting, Question of Day, Relationships, Suicide, Top Featured, Women

A woman takes pride and joy in her reproductive years and it can be challenging when that period is interrupted.

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AskDrO: Live Longer Just By…STRETCHING?

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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December 23, 2010
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| Enough Said!, Family, Love and Happiness, Newsworthy, Relationships, Spiritual, What's Hot

YES…it sounds a little bizarre, but there is living proof that learning to breathe and stretch properly not only builds a resistance to harmful elements in the body, but also helps you to live LONGER. Yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch of New York explains the technique in which to succeed. Porchon-Lynch is 85+ years young (if […]

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UPDATE: Remember Kwame Kilpatrick?

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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December 21, 2010
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| Discussion, Enough Said!, Family, Finance, law, Male Depression, Newsworthy, Politics, Relationships, School, What's Hot

A lot of us remember Kwame Kilpatrick as one the most influential, young Black politicians in America. Seeing him take his position as the youngest elected mayor of Detroit in 2002; at the time, Kilpatrick was 31 years old. Throughout the duration of his term, Kilpatrick’s name and status as mayor was dragged through the mud, […]

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Should You Want A Thug At 30+…Or Just Grown Up?

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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December 15, 2010
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| Discussion, Enough Said!, Family, Female Depression, Love and Happiness, Relationships

You’re walking from an Atlanta Falcons game with your girlfriends, when suddenly you see him…a rough-looking, pants-sagging, fitted-cap wearing, smooth-talking man. You see him socializing outside of the stadium with his friends, makes a ruckus, laughing and drawing the attention from almost everyone who passes by (whether wanted or unwanted). As you walk past him, […]

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BAD NEWS: Aretha Franklin Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.
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December 8, 2010
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| Discussion, Family, Female Depression, Love and Happiness, Newsworthy, What's Hot

…and we all thought it was JUST gastric bypass for cosmetic reasons…turns out that it’s something worse. The doctors’ recommendations which sidelined the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin from further concerts proved to be a result of pancreatic cancer, which means that RIGHT after we have prayed for her safe recovery from surgery, we must […]

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