Forbes / Dr. Akikur Mohammad Is Your Boss A Bully? April 7, 2014

I met Brenda when she managed a 2,000-person department for a Fortune 500 company. Brought in to help her with an upcoming change initiative, I was impressed by Brenda’s intelligence, creativity, political savvy, and dedication to her job. She had all the qualities of a senior executive – which was her career goal.

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Monsters and Critics / Dr. Damon Raskin Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Lyme Disease April 3, 2014

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Lyme disease, it’s not just for the east coasters!

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in North America and Europe.

A disgusting burrowing parasite latches on to you and infuses your blood with nasty Borrelia burgdorferi …all while you were trying to get a good hike in for the day.

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Univision / Dr. Gregg Nishi Cirujano advierte a los niños que no los quiere operar en el futuro April 1, 2014


Crédito: Cortesía Khalili Center

Se trata del Dr. Greg Nishi, un cirujano de Los Ángeles especializado en cirugía bariátrica, que en forma voluntaria asiste a las escuelas para compartir tips de nutrición y actividad física. Su intención es que los niños adquieran hábitos saludables para no llegar a ser obesos de adultos.

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Monsters and Critics / Dr. Damon Raskin Top 5 Medical Symptoms You Should Never Ignore March 25, 2014
Health Spotlight: Guest commentator Dr. Damon Raskin is a go-to medical expert for many in Southern California.

He shares his Top 5 Medical Symptoms You Should Never Ignore list and urges people reading this to dig deeper and go see a doctor if any of these are troubling you.

When you think of adult health, you might think about various strategies for health as simple as frequent hand-washing and being up-to-date on vaccines to common sense weight maintenance and cancer prevention. The choices you make every day go a long way toward promoting adult health.

But sometimes, despite all of our best efforts, there is a genetic predisposition that can catapult you into a high risk group for certain diseases.

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Dr. Damon Raskin

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huffingtonpost / Dr. Akikur Mohammad Like It or Not, Philip Seymour Hoffman Should Be the New Poster Boy for Addiction in America March 18, 2014

In 1985, Yul Brynner teamed up with the American Cancer Society to create an anti-smoking commercial. A few days after his death from lung cancer, the commercial aired nationally for the first time. Brynner knew he was dying, and his final performance was a postmortem plea for people to stop smoking.

For Philip Seymour Hoffman, there will be no such commercial, only the sad truth that his drug-induced death was preventable.

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