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Health features
Bringing the Mediterranean diet to U.S. shores
Diet may be one of several factors associated with fewer incidents of heart disease in Mediterranean countries versus the United States. Find out what's on the menu.
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The many faces of heart disease
What do age and gender have to do with women and heart disease?
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Birth defects awareness
You can take several steps to help prevent birth defects during pregnancy.
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What's new at Park Nicollet?
Surgeons at Park Nicollet now are using the da Vinci S HD robotic surgical system to perform complex procedures – including prostate, gynecological and heart surgery – using dime-sized incisions. The da Vinci is the most advanced robotic surgical system available in the world.
Save the date! The eye event at Park Nicollet Clinic—St. Louis Park is Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10. Meet leading frame, contact lens and refractive surgery experts. Choose from latest eyewear fashions and technologies, many at special savings. Call 952-993-3150 in advance to schedule a comprehensive eye exam and 952-993-2733 for your free refractive surgery screening. Appointments on event days fill quickly and are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis, so call now.
Join the experts from Park Nicollet Wednesday, May 14, 7 to 8:30 p.m., for a free heart-to-heart discussion about how stroke and heart disease can cut short your life – and how preventable both are. Event will be conducted at the Southshore Center, 5735 Country Club Road, Shorewood, Minnesota. Call 952-993-5500 to register.
On Mother’s Day, give your mom a gift from the heart – a women’s heart screening from Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center. Screenings are $99. But schedule a mother-daughter screening during the month of May, and you will each pay just $89. Call 952-993-3246 to schedule your screening.
Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center offers a screening to detect early signs of carotid artery disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and peripheral arterial disease. Vascular diseases, including stroke, often strike with no warning. Call 952-993-2651 to schedule your vascular screening.
Pharmacy @ Park Nicollet would like to find out what you think is important when choosing and using a pharmacy. Please share your thoughts by completing this brief, five-minute survey by Friday, May 9, 2008.
Park Nicollet doctors and specialists offer insight into common health concerns, and patients share their stories each month as part of our Stay Healthy Minnesota campaign. In March and April, our focus was on asthma and allergies and vascular disease and stroke. In May, look for information about breast cancer.
Quick Check for selected, minor conditions, such as sore throat, ear pain, sinus pressure, irritated eyes (pink eye), rashes and more is now open at all Park Nicollet urgent care sites.
Primary Care Skin Services at Park Nicollet Clinic—Bloomington now is offering microdermabrasion for $110 per treatment. Microdermabrasion is commonly used to treat or diminish the appearance of blackheads or whiteheads; fine lines and wrinkles; sun damage, age spots or hyper pigmentation; and acne prone, oily and dry or patchy skin. For information about all our skin care services, call 952-993-2552.
Classes and support groups at Park Nicollet
A wide range of health education classes and support groups are available to patients and community members at a variety of locations in Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs.
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