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Better You Magazine

CHI Health's Better You is a health and wellness magazine, featuring interviews and stories written in partnership with CHI Health providers. Stay up to date on the latest medical treatments and procedures, patient success stories, tips and advice from our team of experts.

Better You - Grand Island Edition

Highlights from this issue:

  • Emergency: Where you go matters!
  • Heart attacks don't wait for business hours
  • Healthy? Having a doctor will help you stay that way
  • 5 things your hometown doctor would never do
  • Sugar: Killing you sweetly

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Better You - Medicare Edition

Highlights from this issue:

  • Inside Medicare: Dollars are in the Details
  • Myth-busting Medicare
  • Fit after 60
  • Life-saving vaccines: Are you up-to-date?
  • Keep your brain young!

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Better You - Campuses Edition

This issue includes highlights from our campuses across Nebraska and Southwest Iowa, including:

  • Groundbreaking research
  • Game-changing neurological care
  • Beating breast cancer: One scan at a time
  • Burn center for kids and adults serves region
  • Innovative treatment for tremors

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Better You - Women Over 40

Highlights from this issue:

  • Fabulous 40s, 50s and beyond
  • Hot flashes & blue moods?
  • Don’t settle for pelvic floor problems
  • Ovarian cancer: Outsmart this silent killer
  • Take the mystery out of menopause

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Better You - Women's and Maternity

Highlights from this issue:

  • You’re not horrible! It’s just hormones
  • Put an end to endometriosis pain
  • Pregnancy: A test in patience and persistence
  • Perfect pregnancy age: Behind the numbers
  • Happiest time of your life…or is it?

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Better You - Orthopedics

Highlights from this issue:

  • 5 reasons not to grin and bear it
  • Nagging hip pain cured with intricate surgery
  • Robot assisted surgery: It’s the bee’s knees
  • Foot pain making you take a step back?
  • Is tendonitis your Achilles heel?

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Better You - Primary Care

Highlights from this issue:

  • The best deal in health care is free
  • Diabetes distress? Walk in for the support you need
  • Back to active: Answers for your aches and pains
  • Toss the tissues. You can get instant relief for sinusitis
  • Mental health has its moment

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Better You - Healthy Minds

Highlights from this issue:

  • Online overload: Kids consuming electronics or electronics consuming kids?
  • More than nerves? Anxiety doesn’t have to be overwhelming
  • Weight of our world: Today’s teens have more to process
  • Mean screens: Anonymous apps embolden bullies
  • 5 words kids crave? “I have time for you”

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Better You - Heart

Highlights from this issue:

  • Heart attack experts: Delivering care when every minute matters
  • First in Nebraska: Valve replacement without open heart surgery
  • Breathing easy: TAVR gets Columbus man back to active in days
  • Taking on triglycerides: Research medication lowers fatal fat
  • World's first: One-of-a-kind heart procedure took weeks of prep

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Better You - Healthy Minds

Highights from this issue:

  • Are the kids all right? Fear, isolation and mental health
  • Change is hard: Coping skills you can count on
  • When 6 feet feels miles apart: Maintaining meaningful relationships
  • Scared or scarred? Signs of trauma
  • New normal? Routines make kids feel safe

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Better You - Covid-19

Highlights from this issue:

  • Putting off care? Risks are real
  • Making care safe: Our #1 priority
  • Elective surgery: New precautions protect you
  • Feeling down? We care and can help
  • Virtual visits: Care from the comfort of home

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Better You - Senior Health

Highlights from this issue:

  • Crack the code: Stay fit after 50
  • Young (or old) at heart? Learn your ticker's actual age
  • Don't get derailed by bloating and bathroom problems
  • 9 ways to your happy place
  • Nature's secret agents: Probiotics are good bacteria

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Better You - Heathy Minds

Highlights from this issue:

  • A to D: What's up when grades go down
  • Wired for trouble: Inside the teen brain
  • Vampire hours: What's keeping teens up at night
  • Vaping, dabbing and more: What your kids are inhaling
  • Alone in a social world: Relationships in the age of digital media

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Better You - Brain

Highlights from this issue:

  • Headaches 101: When you think your head's in a vise
  • Pill dril: Which pain reliever is best?
  • On the menu: Food-reated headache pain
  • Nebraska is Parkinson's Country: Researchers studying why
  • Snore no more: New ways to treat a noisy problem

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Better You - Healthy Minds

Highlights from this issue:

  • Pressure doesn't make perfect: Beware sky-high expectations
  • Helicopter no more: Be present withour hovering
  • Vaping and juuling: A trend on fire
  • Rude, mean or worse: Always take the kind road
  • Why doesn't anyone like me?

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Read a special edition for Blair, NE.

Better You - Women's

Highlights from this issue:

  • Feeling out of sorts: Menopause and your mind
  • Romance on pause? Libido lifters for ladies
  • Great balls of fire: Menopause can cause misery
  • Belly bloat: How to beat the bulge
  • Cycle won't stop? Speak up

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Better You - Primary Care

Highlights from this issue:

  • Are you at risk for Alzheimer's?
  • 'Urine' the clear
  • Foods that jump-start your metabolism
  • The skinny on diet soda
  • Your skin doesn't lie

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Better You - Men's

Highlights from this issue:

  • Man up: The lowdown on Low T
  • Midlife crisis or cliche: The medical reality
  • Receding from hair loss
  • Stop avoiding this person: Your doctor
  • Tough break: Men get osteoporosis, too

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Better You - Healthy Minds

Highlights from this issue:

  • How to curb the pressure to be perfect
  • Five-second post, lifetime of regret
  • Don't be fooled, your life is just great
  • Is it sadness or is it serious? How to pick up on depression
  • When nerves attack: How to tame teenage angst

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Better You - Student Athlete

Highlights from this issue:

  • Pregame eats: Fuel for the win
  • Postgame chow: Replenish your engine
  • RICE: A self-care staple
  • Barbell basics: Know when to lift
  • Think in seasons for peak performance

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Better You - Women's

Highlights from this issue:

  • Muffin top no more
  • Menopause: Are you in it?
  • Laughing and leaking: There's help
  • Overlooked and untreated: Depressions not part of aging
  • Must-have screening tests and why

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Better You - Primary Care

Highlights from this issue:

  • Yo-yo dieting: Why it doesn't work, how it can hurt you
  • 5 foods to avoid after 50
  • Your thyroid: Majestic butterly or sluggish caterpillar?
  • It's a cold! It's the flu! It's cold and flu season!
  • One in 4 has it. What is it and are you one of them?

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Better You - Orthopedics

Highlights from this issue:

  • Less pain, faster recovery time: Anterior hip replacement
  • Let's see a show of hands - who's having a problem?
  • Why do my feet hurt?
  • Weekend warriors! Young athletes! Get a fix on that shoulder pain
  • Tornado survivor thankful for every step

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Better You - Heart

Highlights from this issue:

  • Buying previous time: Advanced therapy for heart failure patients
  • I'm taking what? Medications your heart needs
  • Get the digits for heart health
  • Don't let vascular disease sneak up on you
  • A serious condition many of us don't know we have

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