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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 Health

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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Quote for the Week

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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Transgender Americans on the Front Lines

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.

July 1, 2016

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| Politics, Top Featured, Videos

Pentagon made a historic decision removing the ban on openly Transgender Americans serving in the U.S. armed forces

Remembering 9/11

By Dwight A. Owens, M.D.

September 11, 2013

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| Society

What Does 9/11 Mean To You? On September 11, 2001, four commercial jetliners were hijacked by suicide bombers who crashed them into two towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although the terroists attempted to break the spirit of the American people, they did not succeed. 10 hijackers managed to make 2,753 people die on two airplanes […]